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Media Companion Changelog

What's new in Media Companion 3.764b Beta

Apr 1, 2024
  • Fixes and functionality changes for this release:
  • Changes * TV - Fix listing duplicate episodes output. * TV - Add context menu to switch a series scraper source between TVDB and TMDb. * TV - Add Mirror button to Fanart tab.
  • TV - Add URL or Browse button to screenshot tab.
  • TV - Add thumb node to xml to support. * Movie - Fix AKA Titles from IMDb as best as possible.
  • Movie - Fix Keywords from IMDb.
  • Movie - ID node to be empty if id is zero. * Movie - Fix Manual Poster and Fanart selection not confirming to resizing settings. * Movie - Fixed bug introduced fixing date added node when renaming movie folder. * Movie - Allow sort if user rated has decimal place. (not the norm for Kodi) * Movie - Add Mirror button to Fanart tab. * Movie - Add option AKA titles from TMDb (IMDb AKA is broken, limited to 5 titles). * MC - Fix Audio language type format change. * MC - Update Youtube downloader helper, include batch file users can run to update if required.

New in Media Companion 3.763b Beta (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Fixes and functionality changes for this release:
  • Changes:
  • TV - Display image language if present on Poster tab, TMDB Thumb tab.
  • TV - Episode add DateAdded node to nfo, and options of set by Scrape Date, Episode Aired Date, or by Video file Create Date.
  • TV - fix dateadded if aired date is empty revert to scrape date.
  • Movie - language fix for TMDb images.
  • Movie - Fix rare bug in preferences that could cause an Oops.
  • Movie - Fixed MetaCritic data from IMDb.
  • Movie - Improve Poster tab layout by preferred language posters first, sorted by Votes, then fallback language and finally no language images. * Movie - Fix type and also Sorting Separate Movie Identifier when scraping. * Movie - Fix bug messing date added node if renaming movie folder during scrape

New in Media Companion 3.762b Beta (Jul 3, 2023)

  • Fixes and functionality changes for this release.

New in Media Companion 3.761b Beta (Jun 19, 2023)

  • Fixes and functionality changes for this release.
  • Changes:
  • TV - Fix for Episode scraping from TVDb.
  • TV - Fix episode default ID attribute removed when watched status or batch rewrite nfo selected.
  • TV - Add logging to Check Duplicate episodes. * Movie - Fix plots from IMDb.

New in Media Companion 3.760b Beta (May 17, 2023)

  • Changes:
  • TV - Fix Season folder jpg not save the banner.
  • TV - More season art path fixes
  • TV - New missing Banner filter.
  • TV - Update nfo episodeguide format to new Json format.
  • TV - Fix changing from Tv Fanart.tv tab to Main Tv browser tab.
  • TV - Fix TMDb Artwork scraping language specific glitch.
  • TV - Move Save Main banner as season banner from Batch Wizard to TV Preferences.
  • TV - Fix TVDb scraping episode api V2.
  • TV - FanartTV tab, Season images now show their assigned season as per Fanart.TV.
  • Movie - Poster Autoload poster when switching between movie and sets, if option Preselect loading from TMDB is enabled in Movie General preferences.
  • Movie - Add FolderSize and Studio columns to table view.
  • Movie - Apply general filters if MC isn't started on Movie Browser tab.
  • Movie - Add some logging for rescrape images from Fanart.Tv.
  • Movie - Fix broken list of plots from IMDb.
  • Movie - Minor Update TMDB scraper fix for no writer being filled by actors.
  • Movie - reversed order of media export
  • Movie - TMDB language file update
  • MusicVideo - Second fix for not scraping Concert from TMDb.
  • MC - Honor form size and location when changing profiles.
  • MC - Fix bug storing TV Tableview filters in config file.
  • MC - Fix again form size if changing profiles.
  • MC - Much need update of helper files.
  • MC - Fix TMDB language code for Portuguese.
  • MC - Include actors in CSV export
  • MC - Update trailer download plugin

New in Media Companion 3.759b Beta (Jan 17, 2023)

  • MusicVideo - Fix scrape Concert.
  • Movie - Update MovieSetCache from MovieSetDatabase if MovieSetCache entry is dirty.
  • MC - Fix overlay foldersize overlay than I broke.

New in Media Companion 3.758b Beta (Jan 12, 2023)

  • TV - Episode had runtime saved twice.
  • TV - Match downsize poster/fanart to movie menu dropdown order.
  • TV - Fix display Series ID for correct source when selecting a season.
  • TV - IF on Tv Webbrowser tab, right click to change tvdb, imdb, tmdb will refresh browser to newly selected source.
  • TV - Add Size, Season number and Episode number to overlay of Fanart image.
  • TV - Completed get missing episode data from TMDB for TMDB scraped series.
  • HomeMovie - Change Year node to Premiered.
  • MC - Final fix changing Profiles updated selected filters.

New in Media Companion 3.757b Beta (Oct 25, 2022)

  • MC - Update MediaInfo.dll.
  • TV - Fix Manual add series (F2) if series title already has the year, don't add it to the folder title again.
  • TV - Rework TV Table view, add columns, save column sizing.
  • TV - Add column select button to tv table tab.
  • TV - Add Menu option to downsize Poster or downsize Fanart to set preferred image sizes.
  • TV - Add optional filter to display Un Verified series only. Enable filter in TV Preferences, General Tab.
  • TV - Fix Episode Id's changed to TMDB Default when running Batch Wizard to get TMDB Eisode Id's.
  • TV - Quick add fixed to not download artwork.
  • TV - Batch Wizard will download actor images if Quick add option selected.
  • MusicVideo - Fix scraping and retrieving of data from Wikipedia.
  • Movie - Fix Outline from IMDB.
  • Movie - Fix rare issue where artwork was renamed to a base name.

New in Media Companion 3.756b Beta (Jul 15, 2022)

  • Release Notes:
  • New requested options, couple of bugs squashed.
  • Changes
  • TV - Fix error if episode missing year and airdate data.
  • TV - Manual add series, take into account if title already has year, don't make folder with double year entry.
  • Movie - added new tabs to table view. Countries, Votes, Resolution, Audio Codec & Audio Channels

New in Media Companion 3.755b Beta (Jun 26, 2022)

  • MC - some minor updates to export routine.
  • MC - Check hdrtype for Dolby Vision before HDR10.
  • MC - Honor rules of Image size as set in Preferences -> Common tab.
  • TV - Correct season landscape image from Fanart.TV to be seasonXX-fanart.jpg instead, and load image if present when selecting a season.
  • TV - Set Image type imagePaths for series.
  • TV - Remove a 'missing episode' when said episode is scraped.
  • Tv - Improve search results for series with apostrophe in title.
  • TV - Add trailer node to series xml and scrape for new shows scraped from TMDb.
  • TV - Add option Tv Scraper tab, scrape Trailer URL.
  • TV - Add scrape series trailer to TV Batch Rescrape Wizard.
  • TV - Fix MC minimise crash if autohide banner selected.
  • Movie - Fix context menu Delete Movie to actually delete the movie, files, and folder.
  • Movie - Fix Fanart.tv during movie scrape.
  • Movie - Fill in IMDB Id if missing during Batch Rescrape.
  • Movie - Add JSON format to Movie Export
  • Movie - Add option Movie Preferences -> Advanced tab, allow show screenshot button on fanart tab.
  • Movie - Movie sets, right click a movie in a collection (right panel) and title and year will be copied to clipboard.

New in Media Companion 3.754b Beta (Feb 6, 2022)

  • TV - Change color of series title in Treeview if series is empty for better visual representation.
  • TV - F2 Manual series add, New year option in TV Preferences, Extras tab.
  • TV - F2 Manual series add, add option to autocreate season folders.
  • TV - Fix old underlying issue with Episode Id numbers, specially when batch rescraping.
  • TV - Tidyup code, final fix series/Episode Id's, Final fix change root folder scraper source.
  • TV - New option in TV Preferences -> General, Auto-Hide Banner box if no banner available.
  • TV - Episodes save runtime with or without "min" without needing stream details rescrape.
  • TV - Fix picturebox split position when changing profiles.
  • Movie - Fix ID usage for Fanart.TV site.
  • Movie - Renamed a filter for Fanart.TV.
  • Movie - Try improve getting year from filename if example (1895-1905) (2015), get four digits in brackets first.
  • MC - Removal of Pre-Frodo etc art type selection.
  • MC - Update mediainfo dll.
  • MC - add support for nfo tag hdrtype, and add overlay icons for hdr10 and dolbyvision.

New in Media Companion 3.753b Beta (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Movie - Keep rating and stream details overtop of rotating fanart images.
  • Movie - Catch not checking if file exists Extrafanart.
  • Movie - Final fix <dateadded> now from Modified Time of video file.
  • Movie - Add option Movie Preferences -> Advanced, Exclude movie from collection list of movies if year is Unknown, ie Movie has no release date.
  • Movie - Add option Movie Preferences -> General, User can disable cycling through present multiple posters & Fanart.
  • Movie - Recognise Forced externat subtitles during renaming.
  • TV - Correct log output, reducing whitespaces.
  • TV - Fix display series missing poster causing crash.
  • TV - Add General tab to Preferences.
  • TV - Add option swap poster and fanart positions.
  • TV - Attempt fix race condition on batch rescrape updating TvTreenode.
  • MC - Switch trailer download helper to yt_dlp as more current and greater success.

New in Media Companion 3.752b Beta (Sep 27, 2021)

  • Movie - Setup preliminary support for multi poster and fanart (numbered 1 to 9)
  • Movie - If selected movie has multi posters or fanart, cycle images every four seconds.
  • Movie - Pause poster cycling if not on Movie Browser tab.
  • Movie - Fix error Zero length string if nfo does not contain <dateadded> node.
  • Movie - Fix scraping premier date from IMDb.
  • TV - Fix batch wizard if series has no TVDB Id...again.
  • TV - Fix Series fields cleared if lost focus, ie change to fanart tab then back.

New in Media Companion 3.751b Beta (Aug 25, 2021)

  • Bulk lot of bug fixes
  • Changes:
  • Movie - Revert many changes to new Kodi Date Added tag, fixing source of date to Video Files Create Date.
  • Movie - Fix getting Titles and AKA's from IMDB.
  • Movie - Alt Editor add DateAdded display, and button get DateAdded from Source video file.
  • Movie - Added Fix Date Added button to Movie Preferences -> Advanced tab. Will run throught MC database of movies, setting Date Added in nfo to Video files Create Date.
  • Movie - Fix Go To Movie from Table View.
  • Movie - Get year from Brackets first, then from anywhere in video file title.
  • Movie - Fix filter list height not honored if MC started any other tab than Movie tab.
  • Movie - New convert Legacy rating and vote nodes to new Ratings nodes. Movie Preferences -> Advance tab.
  • TV - Handle CDATA node.
  • TV - Batch Scraper, log missing series and continue.
  • TV - Clear all field Main Browser if no series in cache.
  • TV - New convert Legacy rating and vote nodes to new Ratings nodes. TV Preferences -> Extras tab.
  • TV - New option under Episode renaming, keep scraped title casing.
  • TV - Fix when Change Series on TMDB, if not TVDBID for selected series, the old series TVDBId was assigned to the new series.
  • TV - Add scrape options to not download banners, Series or Seasons.
  • MusicVideo - If list empty, clear all fields.
  • MC - Update 3rd party app for download of trailers.
  • MC - Movied option 'On Scrape, Ignored articles to end of Sort Title.' to Common Settings Preferences tab. Now functions on TV Series as well as Movies.
  • MC - Fix Export Library to Kodi import format for Movie video file.
  • MC - Option (disabled default) play finished sound on Search and Refresh

New in Media Companion 3.750b Beta (Apr 1, 2021)

  • MC /- Changes to how tag <dateadded> is formatted and functions in MC, improving Kodi compatability.
  • MC /- Fix TMDb scraping of Movies and Series Part
  • TV /- Add catch if episode fails to scrape, continue to next episode.
  • TV /- Add option to TV Preferences /- > Extra to allow removal of episodeguide tag from nfo, for select cases of use only.
  • Movie /- Also change Rename %A for Movie filename not just Movie Folder.
  • Movie /- On request DTS XLL X is now stored as DTS X, please advise if this is incorrect.

New in Media Companion 3.749b Beta (Aug 13, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • MC - Hopefully final fix for some AC-3 or E-AC-3 stream codec to correctly be ac3 and eac3 respectively.
  • Movie - Assign stream details even if movie fails to scrape.
  • Movie - Rename %A change, now only Audio Codec. Does not include Channels, alter renaming to be %A %O if channel numbers required.
  • Movie - Fix glitch when changing movie from one collection to another, not transferring setid
  • Movie - Fix SSL/TLS handshake with TMDb.
  • Mc_com - include profile name for Search new Movies.

New in Media Companion 3.748b Beta (Jun 22, 2020)

  • New:
  • MC - Disabled all alternative IMDb Mirror sites as they no longer function. Will be removed next round if no issues advised of.
  • Fixed:
  • Mc_com - Fix too fast to write to log during scraping, coming though out of sequence.
  • Mc_com - Clean TV cache only if -c argument selected.
  • MC - Include tagcache.xml as independant file per Profile.
  • MC - Correctly flag audio type DTS ES XLL as DTS HD Master Audio.
  • MC - Identify Atmos audio correctly.
  • MC - Correct audio language for Greek.
  • TV - Assign TMDB Id to loaded seasons if present in nfo.
  • TV - Fix Filters when switching between profiles.
  • Movie - Honor do not overwrite existing images if scraped first time.

New in Media Companion 3.747b Beta (May 12, 2020)

  • Release Notes:
  • General Bug fixes and tidy up of code
  • New:
  • TV - Batch Wizard add get Season Titles for TMDB Scraped Series.
  • TV - Series failed to scrape, now show a red X against them in the TV Browser list.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix and tidy up some DTS audio flags.
  • TV - Fix episodeguide url for TMDB Series.
  • TV - TV Show Selector tab, Fix TMDb language issue.
  • TV - Fix if duplicate seasons found for same Series Id.
  • TV _ Improve log messages when scraping series.
  • TV - Fix series status from TMDb.
  • mc_com - Fix correctly display what we are running mc_com for.
  • mc_com - Write log file as it happens.
  • mc_com - Fix race condition.
  • mc_com - Improve save tvcache.
  • MusicVideo - Fix up if not scraped store Artist and Title from filename.
  • MusicVideo - Update TheAudioDb scraper.

New in Media Companion 3.746b Beta (Apr 30, 2020)

  • New:
  • Mc_com - Added new options.
  • TV - Move and rework Filter.
  • TV - Add Search Series.
  • TV - Add Season Titles from TMDB.
  • TV - Add option display TMDB Season Titles if present. NB Series must be scraped from TMDB.
  • TV - Batch Rescrape add Series option Keywords as Tags from TMDb only.
  • Movie - Media Export add trailerytid to <<nfo:>> tag, allows export only of youtube id for trailer.
  • Movie - Add Lockable Plot, Outline, SortTitle.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - MC3.746b Fixes load times for very large TV Databases.
  • TV - Correctly store unique id from tvdb when episode scraped from TMDb.
  • TV - Correct logic when change show to delete episode artwork.
  • TV - Fix if Missing episode has empty title or plot, caused crash.
  • TV - Update episodeguide tag in tvshow.nfo, including addition of TMDb url.
  • MC - Fix audio codec.
  • MC - Allow MediaInfoExport to scan sub folders for extra Templates.

New in Media Companion 3.745b Beta (Apr 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Mc_com - Added new options.
  • TV - Move and rework Filter.
  • TV - Add Search Series.
  • TV - Add Season Titles from TMDB.
  • TV - Add option display TMDB Season Titles if present. NB Series must be scraped from TMDB.
  • TV - Batch Rescrape add Series option Keywords as Tags from TMDb only.
  • Movie - Media Export add trailerytid to <<nfo:>> tag, allows export only of youtube id for trailer.
  • Movie - Add Lockable Plot, Outline, SortTitle.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Correctly store unique id from tvdb when episode scraped from TMDb.
  • TV - Correct logic when change show to delete episode artwork.
  • TV - Fix if Missing episode has empty title or plot, caused crash.
  • TV - Update episodeguide tag in tvshow.nfo, including addition of TMDb url.
  • MC - Fix audio codec.
  • MC - Allow MediaInfoExport to scan sub folders for extra Templates.

New in Media Companion 3.744b Beta (Apr 2, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - Use correct language selected for scraper source of series.
  • TV - Added write test added folders.
  • TV - Refix get TMDB Languages for series on TV Show Selector tab.

New in Media Companion 3.742b Beta (Mar 30, 2020)

  • New:
  • TV - TV Show Selector Tab properly support TMDB Series languages and overview.
  • TV - Add option allow search TMDb to include Adult content.
  • Movie - added <dateadded> tag to nfo to keep inline with Kodi.
  • Movie - Add Source and Tags to Locable fields
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Update youtube_dl to fix trailer downloads.
  • TV - Fix update flags TV Tree changing state from unverified to open or locked/unlocked.
  • TV - Fix display of series marked all as watched/unwatched.
  • Movie - Update Kodi TMDB scraper.
  • Movie - Fix get Collection artwork if movies filtered out on main browser tab.
  • Movie - Fix Rescrape all Movie Collection.
  • Movie - Fix honor Lock of set data.
  • Movie - Fix logic movie set artwork check if downloaded.

New in Media Companion 3.738b Beta (Dec 16, 2019)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - Partial fix for TV Selector tab. At present will only scrape validate English language till TVDB fixes the API. Still attempting work-around.
  • MC - Artwork Fix Fanart.TV . Thank You to Roberto Casula.

New in Media Companion 3.737b Beta (Nov 24, 2019)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix search XBMC TMDb Scraper.
  • Movie - Fix sort Ratings on Table View.
  • Movie - Fix TMDb Norwegian language.
  • Movie - Fix Youtube trailer url in nfo to plugin format.
  • TV - Fix up artwork and some functionality after TVDB API V3 database change.

New in Media Companion 3.735b Beta (Sep 15, 2019)

  • New:
  • MC - Correctly fix TMDb scraping timing.
  • MC - Update Mediainfo.dll to 19.4.0.0 and fix some audio formats
  • MC - Update ffmpeg.
  • MC - Profile, new Sort Profiles A-Z button on Profile Preference tab.
  • MC - Add option Preferences to allow appending to mc_com log file.
  • MC - Add youtube_dl cmd for Trailer download.
  • mc_com - Limit appended log file to 3MB, then create logold file.
  • Movie - If Frodo and Onwards selected, then exclude loading General Filters specific to Pre-Frodo, Frodo.
  • TV - New Option, if Series scraped from TMDb, added Year to end of Series Title.
  • TV - Export template addition of <<ep_tvdburl>>
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix if Auto Scrape time values set to zero, causes MC crash on start.
  • MC - Media Export Movie Set catch crash if movie selected not in a Movie Set.
  • MC - Fix Portuguese language in TMDb languages file.
  • Movie - Fix Movie Set Art path certain instances where movie collection within a folder not matching Collection name from TMDb.
  • Movie - Fix Studio Counter limit on Rescrape of TMDb studios.
  • Movie - Change initial default Change Movie webpage to IMDB or TMDb depending on selected scraper.
  • Movie - Set default UniqueId tag in nfo depending on scraper.
  • Movie - Re-Implement Youtube Trailer downloading. Currently no control as to Resolution, but set to best possible.
  • TV - Missing Series include Cancel by ESC key.
  • TV - Missing Series list upgrade to listbox.
  • TV - Fix if Episode does not exist on TMDb. Thanks to Jean-Michel KIRSCH.
  • TV - Fix up log display and which version scraper used.
  • TV - Fix change TMDb Series Id, and display correct source if changing.
  • TV - Adjust TV Show Selector tab for TMDb poster to display larger.
  • TV - Tweaked the uqique Id tags.
  • TV - Use TMDbId if series/episodes scraped from TMDb, as some unique series do not have TVDb Id's as Series is not on TVDb site. Thanks to Jean-Michel KIRSCH.
  • mc_com - Fix scraped episodes from TMDb not being added to tvcache.xml file.
  • MusicVideo - Remove Wiki reference markers from Plot.

New in Media Companion 3.734b Beta (Jul 7, 2019)

  • New:
  • Nothing new for this release
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Allow for Audio channel(s) with Object Based results.
  • MC - Fix again for Channel(s) vs Channel(s)_Original.
  • MC - Fixing timing issue when scraping from TMDb, movies and series/episodes.
  • Movie - Tweak Delete movie folder, User must have enabled All Movies are in Folders or User Folder Name for scraping.
  • Movie - minor fixes in Trailer code.
  • TV - Fix results from TVDb with NULL season number (Thanks to ChrisK). Movie - Fix get media tags from DVD ISO file.
  • TV - Separate TMDb language selection for Series/Episodes, separated from TMDB Movie language and TVDb language.
  • TV - Fix updating of watched/unwatched status for multi-episode entries in MC.

New in Media Companion 3.732b Beta (Jun 10, 2019)

  • New:
  • TV - add r-click options to Fanart.TV tab to open Link to Series on Fanart.TV in local Web Browser.
  • Movie - Add r-click option to Fanart.TV to open link to Movie on Fanart.TV in local Web Browser. NB. If Movie in a collection, r-click the toggle button Will open link of Movie or Movie Collection on Fanart.Tv
  • TV - Support Change Series originally scraped from TMDB. NB Series must be scraped from a specific source, not for changing sources eg from TVDB to TMDB
  • TV - Add TMDb to Webtab option, if selected tv series has TMDb Id
  • Movie - Make fully portable added option to Movie Preferences, Advanced tab, store moviesetdatabase.xml instead into 'Settings' folder.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix getting Trailer URL.
  • mc_com - Fix if ESC key pressed.
  • MC - Add stream detail framerate to nfo.
  • MC - Export XBMC/Kodi format fix for illegal characters in series title.
  • MC - Take Audio Channel(s) as default count of Channels, Else use Channel(s)_Original.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape specific option Tmdb Set (complete), not getting TMDB Set Id for a movie.
  • Movie - Hide MovieSet button on Fanart.TV tab if not in a collection.
  • Movie - Remove 'General' filter from being disabled from Configure filter panel.
  • Movie - Incorporate "uniqueid" tag in nfo.
  • Movie - Fix if Drive letter is Root movie folder, eg M:
  • Movie - Fix get movie trailer URL if Special version in Movie title, eg Dune Extended-Edition would fail to get a Trailer URL.
  • TV - Incorporate "uniqueid" in nfo.
  • TV - Fix if Change Statue from Un-Verified when series scraped from TMDb.
  • TV - TMDB Scrape to use TVDb language, not the language set on Movie Preferences.
  • TV - Only lock Series, display message if the Series is not Selected.

New in Media Companion 3.731b Beta (Apr 23, 2019)

  • New:
  • mc_com - Allow export of TV to template output like Movies already does.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix change Series state wiped new rating nodes from nfo.
  • MC - Update Export to Kodi db format to include new ratings format.
  • MC - Change behaviour External Browser option. If no specific browser selected, use system default browser.
  • MC - Update for IMDB Id increased from 7 to 8 numbers.
  • Movie - Fix simple and advanced IMDB search for IMDBId.

New in Media Companion 3.730b Beta (Mar 18, 2019)

  • TV -fix scraping RT after prev code rework.
  • TV - Fix r-click Ratings/Votes Show and Episodes manual entry of values, now update primary rating/votes source.
  • TV - Fix scraping episodes for series that do not have a root folder already in list of TV Root folder.
  • Movie - MovieSet Central artwork folder, place check that folder is not nothing, and folder exists.
  • Movie - Fix if valid movie.nfo found, but MC not set for Basic Save Mode.
  • HomeMovie - Fix scrape title with ampersand character in filename.

New in Media Companion 3.729b Beta (Mar 5, 2019)

  • New:
  • Movie - New option to double click wall poster to play movie. Option in Movie Preferences, General tab. Enabled is default.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix not displaying Rating/Votes in MC Browser tab after new Disable Legacy option introduced.
  • Movie - Update Kodi TMDB scraper.
  • Movie - Fix logic error on Votes/Ratings. Always show Primary rating/votes in movie browser tab.
  • TV - Fix if one Root folder not selected to scrape, no scraping would occur.
  • TV - Fix if cancel episode scraping, data would remain valid till next search for new episodes.

New in Media Companion 3.728b Beta (Mar 4, 2019)

  • New:
  • MC - Add Option to not save legacy tags <rating>, <votes> & <metascore> in nfo. Default is Enabled.
  • Movie - Add new feature to scrape RT Concensus and apply to Outline tag field.
  • Movie - New option in Movie Preferences, General Tab, Switch Poster & Fanart Layout on browser tab.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Export HTML fix for null integer in file resolution.
  • Movie - Apply change colon to space dash space also to collection folder rename.
  • Movie - Fix Alt Movie Editor if delete last actor.
  • Movie - Second actor image fix from actorthumb source
  • Movie - Fix if Batch Rescraping and Custom Movies in list with no valid TMDb or IMDb ID's, skip to the next movie.
  • Movie - Fix issue renaming movie folder if 'All Movies are in Folders' is enabled, and scraped movie is no in its own folder.
  • Movie - Movie rotten tomato ratings, almagate rt ratings options outside options group of tmdb/imdb.
  • TV - Fix Episode renaming by remove leading dot from series name during episode renaming.
  • TV - Fix when manually Save, new <ratings> tag was removed.

New in Media Companion 3.727b Beta (Jan 3, 2019)

  • Fixed:
  • MC - Display selected browser once selected in preferences.
  • Tv - Fix search all TvSeries if Search New or F3 used, will search all unlocked series even if series listed does not have a corresponding root Series folder.
  • TV - Minor series path code fixes.
  • Movie - 3rd attempt fix issue with calling tmdb during batch rescrape.
  • Movie - Fix poster wall not populating video_ts structure poster.
  • Movie - Fix rating crash from Batch Rescrape.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape Genre only sourcing from TMDb not IMDb if selected.
  • Movie - Add Drag-Drop to offline movie folder list.
  • Movie - Add multiple select remove from offline movie folder list.
  • Movie - Fix createdate value if not stored in the movies nfo. Requires a Refresh of Movies.
  • Movie - On Rescrape, do not alter the Sort Title unless user has selected to rescrape the movies Title.
  • Movie - Fix KeyWords from IMDb.
  • Movie - Fix issue when saving folder.jpg for MovieSet artwork, during scraping of movie.
  • Movie - Fix for if the nfo does not contain a <Rating> tag or <Ratings> section.

New in Media Companion 3.726 Beta (Nov 26, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • MC - Possible fix for displaying web pages in MC (ie Movies IMDb page in internal browser)
  • Tv - Fix if Root paths contain Forward-Slashes.
  • TV - Fix 'Search New' if no Root TV Folder(s).
  • TV - Fix search new if series are in main directory of drive letter. eg S:Arrow
  • TV - Fix multiepisodes scraped from TMDb.
  • Movie - Fix Original Title not pulling from IMDb.
  • Movie - increase thread sleep to 400ms to stop race on tmdb data.

New in Media Companion 3.725 Beta (Nov 10, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - 2nd fix scrape from TMDb timing issue.
  • TV - Correct option for change actor source.
  • TV - Store some more data in tvcache.xml file.

New in Media Companion 3.724 Beta (Nov 4, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes & minor new options:
  • New:
  • MC - New option to open error log in alt nfo editor/viewer if one is selected.
  • TV - New option in TV Preferences -> Extras tab. Change all unlocked series/episodes actor source by button click.
  • TV - Add r-click to Search button to select root path to search for new episodes.
  • Movie - Color entry in list of movies if video is in offline folder, or a mediastub file.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Change behavior of rename file and movie folder. If colon character present, new option to replace with space+dash, else colon character is removed.
  • Movie - Movie Set art, add functionality to also save folder.jpg to movie set path.
  • Movie - Improve Batch rescrape wizard if selected options do not require a TMDB or IMDb Id.
  • Movie - Add option to context menu, Refresh movie to Cache. This will reload the nfo, and update the cache for selected movie(s).
  • Movie - Fix batch rescrape all from tmdb causing race condition.
  • Movie - Improve r-click search button functionality.
  • Music Video - Fix data returned with html tag info.

New in Media Companion 3.722 Beta (Oct 1, 2018)

  • New:
  • TV - Option to remove series actors from episode actors during episode scraping.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix API access to TMDb.
  • TV - Fix IMDb Actor roles.
  • TV - Fix Episode rescrape disappearing from series.

New in Media Companion 3.720 Beta (Sep 21, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • MC - Remove option to get IMDB ratings from OMDB. We get this directly from IMDb.
  • Movie - Shift options IMDB Id and RT ratings via OMDB from Common tab to Movie Scraper tab, IMDb scraper options.
  • Movie - Fix ratings from IMDB if only option selected on TMDb scraper settings.
  • Movie - Fix Rescrape button on Movie tab, failed to initialize TMDb correctly.
  • TV - Fix logic which rating is default for series and episodes.
  • TV - Fix error if removing apostrophe character code, and string is nothing.
  • TV - If RottenTomato ratings are 'N/A' then don't return RT ratings.

New in Media Companion 3.719 Beta (Sep 19, 2018)

  • New:
  • MC - Personal Fanart.TV Key entry on Preferences->Common tab.
  • Movie - Collection artwork, add option to save in Parent folder as <moviesetname>-arttype or as arttype.
  • Movie - Collection artwork, Add option to save in Central folder with Movie Set sub folder as <moviesetname>-arttype or as arttype.
  • Movie - Add KeyArt to missing Fanart.Tv filter.
  • Movie - Display if Animated Poster or Animated Fanart is present for Movie or Collection in Extra Artwork listbox.
  • TV - Add Series and Episode scrape RottenTomato ratings.
  • TV - Add option to get TVDb and/or TMDb ratings for Series and Episodes.
  • TV - Add Batch Rescrape ratings from TVDb, TMDb, IMDB and/or Rotten Tomato.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Improve speed of image retrieval from Fanart.Tv.
  • MC - Fix RT ratings from percentage to Kodi format.
  • MC - Fix loading of animated Gif's into Picturebox without locking source file.
  • Movie - Make ExtraArt listbox stretch with size of Media Companion.
  • Movie - Fix selecting of Movieset Artwork from TMDb or Fanart.TV
  • Movie - Fix batch rescrape of movies that do not have an IMDb.
  • Movie - fix couple of Movieset data issuesfrom TMDb.
  • Movie - Fix for IMDB get Director(s) and get Writer(s)
  • Movie - Fix/Improve Rescrape Specific Ratings.
  • Movie - On batch rescrape if missing TMDb Id or missing IMDb Id (but not both), try to populate the missing Id value.
  • TV - Fix separator character of episode directors and writers if multiple names.
  • TV - More charactercode fixes for titles and plots for both series and episodes.
  • TV - Fixes for null fields.
  • TV - Fixed ep title rename of single quote used instead of apostrophe.
  • TV - Batch wizard change rating option layout.

New in Media Companion 3.718 Beta (Sep 8, 2018)

  • New:
  • TV - Add multi-ratings to Series and Episode.
  • TV - Get rotten tomato to Series and Episodes if user has entered own OMDb api key.
  • Movie - Collections, add option to get selected Fanart.tv artwork.
  • Movie - Collections, add option to store in sub-folders of Central collections folder.
  • Movie - Collection artwork from Fanart.Tv now listed in Extra Artwork list.
  • Movie - Batch Rescrape Wizard, add extra rating source options.
  • Movie - Add get TMDb ratings on IMDb scraper settings.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix searching for series with apostrophe in title (now two methods of searching).
  • TV - Fix Episode plots with apostrophe as character code.
  • TV - Fix preview of Fanart.tv images and include KeyArt type.
  • TV - Fix episode scraping in DVD order (Thanks @cg2017).
  • Movie - Fix preview of KeyArt.
  • Movie - Add error handler to Multi-Thread refresh movies.
  • Movie - Replace title with Original title does not apply on rescrape unless rescraping Title or AltTitles. NB. This will affect Renaming if Title or Alt title and Renaming is selected on Rescrape Specific or Batch Wizard.
  • MC - Update AlphaFS (Long path handling) from 2.1.0 to 2.2.6
  • MC - add WEBRip to release source list.

New in Media Companion 3.716 Beta (Aug 27, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix display of mkvmerge path when added in preferences.
  • MC - Updated export tags for movies and TV.
  • Movie - Fix infinite loop if extrafanart/extrathumbs exists.
  • Movie - Fix get IMDb data if using TMDb scraper.
  • Movie - Fix outline retrieved from IMDb.
  • Movie - Rescrape specific, change Credits to Writers(Credits).
  • TV - Fix get episode actors from IMDb.
  • TV - Fix update of actor source buttons.
  • TV - Stop losing focus on series/season/episode if running some context commands.
  • TV - Export html, add Series Title to episode nfo tag.

New in Media Companion 3.715 Beta (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix on scrape Fanart.Tv artwork overwriting artwork already retrieved.
  • Movie - Fix Batch rescrape if 'SCRAPE MAIN TAGS FROM TMDB' selected.
  • Movie - Fix File and Folder renaming if illegal characters.
  • Movie - Fix MovieSet artwork from collection folder if collection name contained illegal characters.
  • TV - Fixed actors to Central folder with ID suffix.
  • MC - Revert https to http for IMDb urls.
  • MC - Set to default No actor id suffix if central actor folder.

New in Media Companion 3.714 Beta (Aug 21, 2018)

  • Release Notes:
  • Bug Release - Fix retrieving IMDb data
  • New:
  • mc_com - add '-s' option if used with -v will not sound the exit sound.
  • Movie - Add to TMDB scraper options to get Plot from IMDb.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix imdb votes and ratings for Series and episodes.
  • Movie - Fix from IMDB Directors, Writers, Stars, Countries, and Studios.
  • Movie - Complete re-work of imdb data.
  • MC - Exclude folder can now be comma separated when entering the folders to exclude. MC will separate to line-by-line once settings applied.

New in Media Companion 3.713 Beta (Aug 19, 2018)

  • New:
  • TV - New option if series scraped from TMDb, allow get Plot from IMDb if present and if IMDb Id present.
  • Fixed:
  • mc_com - Fix no movies found if scraping Movies.
  • TV - Wrap get actors tvdb in error catch.
  • TV - Fix getting seasonwide if no images available.
  • TV - Fix actor images from TVDB.
  • MC - Fix some proxy issues.
  • MC - Update mediainfo.dll from 0.7.91.0 to 18.5.0.0. Fixes audio channel count issue and much more.
  • Movie - Fix Votes and ratings from IMDb.
  • Movie - Set TMDb as default Movie scraper.
  • Movie - Change 'Credits' to 'Writers (Credits)' in Batch rescrape Wizard.

New in Media Companion 3.712 Beta (Jul 31, 2018)

  • Couple new ExtraFanart options, Fixing of MovieSets, and correct naming of some fanart.Tv artwork filenames.
  • New:
  • Movie - New ExtraFanart option. Choose if from TMDB or Fanart.TV.
  • Movie - New ExtraFanart option. Choose to save movie fanart as fanart0.jpg if not extrafanart.
  • Movie - New ExtraFanart option. Choose to always save movies fanart as fanart0.jpg.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Update MC to correct naming of discart and clearlogo.
  • MC - Add rename buttons to debug tab for logo.png, disc.png, character.png for TV and Movies
  • Movie - MovieSet tab improvement, show user collection name if different from TMDB collection name.
  • Movie - MovieSets if users have edited TMDB Set names, now correctly find and display in MC.
  • Movie - Fix update of Movie Collection data from MovieSet tab if customized collection names differ from TMDB Set names.
  • Movie - Fix renaming movie with fanart.tv images if switching between clearlogo.png and <moviename>-clearlogo.png naming convention.
  • Movie - Fix rename folder if root movie folder is just the driver letter. ie, M: not M:Movies.
  • TV - Fix actors to central folder.

New in Media Companion 3.711 Beta (Jul 10, 2018)

  • New:
  • Movie - Right click Search button to show list of Active movie Root Folders, and select which root folder(s) to search for new movies.
  • Movie - Display Original Title in browser tab. Allow saving of altered original title.
  • Movie - Table View, add Original Title column.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix scraping Actors from TVDb if series has not actors (don't cause a crash, and continue with the scrape).
  • MC - Possible fix for permission error when renaming extrafanart/extrathumb images to new format.
  • MC - possible fix to movie studio filter and to fix extrafanart/extrathumbs rename issue.
  • Movie - Fix Select multiple Tags for removal.
  • Movie - Fix Save changed image if cropping Fanart.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape Genre's displaying and saving with comma as separator character.
  • Movie - Change Movie if user selects to keep artwork, also keep trailer if present.
  • Movie - Add to Change Movie tab, option to not delete trailer in cases that user has placed trailer with movie.

New in Media Companion 3.710 Beta (Jun 8, 2018)

  • New:
  • TV - Batch Wizard, add remember selected options. Useful if your consistently running the Batch wizard with the same selected rescrape options.
  • Movie - Batch Wizard, add remember selected options. Useful if your consistently running the Batch wizard with the same selected rescrape options.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Complete change of ExtraFanart and ExtraThumbs to correct filenames as per Kodi Wiki.
  • TV - Rework ExtraFanart to correct filenames as per Kodi Wiki.
  • TV - Improve Manual add series and fix return data TVDb.
  • TV - Fix error if selecting different tabs with no series loaded.
  • TV - Fix Screenshot tab replaced current episode image with one from file.
  • MC - Add option in Debug tab to fix extrafanart and extrathumb filenames for Movies and TV Series.
  • MC - Ignore function keys if Alt, Shift or Control also held.
  • Movie - Fix crop fanart image.
  • Movie - Exclude separate movie identifier from being listed as duplicates.
  • MusicVideo - Tweaks to ensure Artist and Title are populated from File/Folder titles if not able to retrieve from scraper.
  • MusicVideo - Improve retrieving Plot from Wiki.
  • MusicVideo - Get more than one Genre if present.

New in Media Companion 3.709 Beta (May 26, 2018)

  • Movie - Correctly process Title, original title, sort title for TitleCase and Ignore Articles.
  • Movie - Correctly handle apostrophe to Title, original title, AKA titles.

New in Media Companion 3.708 Beta (May 21, 2018)

  • New:
  • TV - Complete Manual add Series by F2 key.
  • MC - Add Function keys to drop menus, Added F4 to run Batch Wizards.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - TV tab layout fixed.
  • Movie - Fix rename folder if sub-folder contains separate movies.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape Top250.
  • Movie - Fix race condition of Batch Rescrape from TMDb.
  • Movie - Fix and catch cleanly if Batch rescrape from IMDB and movie has no valid IMDB Id value.

New in Media Companion 3.706 Beta (May 10, 2018)

  • New:
  • TV - Allow users to select TVDb API V1 or V2.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix outline from IMDb.
  • Movie - Get correct outline data for movie.
  • Movie - Update Kodi TMDb scraper.

New in Media Companion 3.705 Beta (May 7, 2018)

  • Bug fixes due to refactor of Movie Batch Rescrape routines Fix for IMDB Actors
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix scraping of IMDB Actors.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape trailer/download trailer.
  • Movie - 2nd fix to new rescrape routines, mark as rescrape.

New in Media Companion 3.703 Beta (Apr 30, 2018)

  • MC - Scrape Fanart image from largest found resolution selected by Max Fanart resolution selected.

New in Media Companion 3.702 Beta (Apr 21, 2018)

  • Few tweaked options and Bug Fixes:
  • New: MC - Exit option added to menustrip MC - Added "WebDL" to source list * TV - Batch wizard, add Only Empty option for Series and for Episodes.
  • Fixed:
  • Update HTML Template guide
  • Fix for DVD Sort Order of episodes.
  • Apply fix for DVD sort order to TVDB Api V2.
  • Fix if actor names have illegal characters from TVDb.
  • Addition of specials AirsAfter_Season tag. Left-click "Airs Before" label to switch between values for editing. NB: Only AirsAfter_Season or AirsBeforeSeason/AirsBeforeEpisode, can not store all three fields.

New in Media Companion 3.701 Beta (Apr 14, 2018)

  • New:
  • Movie - Complete additions of Fanart.TV missing artwork filter. MediaExport - Now supports imdb_rating, imdb_votes, tmdb_rating, tmdb_votes, metacritic_rating, metacritic_votes with leading <<nfo: eg: <<nfo:metacritic_votes>>
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Episode thumbnail improve media info overlay display.
  • TV - Final fix loading episodes if exists file 'season.nfo'. Thanks to Mata7 for tireless testing.
  • Movie - Fix get keywords from TMDb on initial scrape.
  • MediaExport - Movies allow <<votes>> or <<nfo:votes>>

New in Media Companion 3.700 Beta (Mar 23, 2018)

  • Minor bug fix in Change movie section, and couple of requested functions added.
  • New:
  • TV - Episodes allow editing of Votes and Ratings values by r-click on fields.
  • Movie - Edit votes or Rating by r-click on fields.
  • TV - Series edit votes or ratings by r-click on fields.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix code change in Change Movie section.

New in Media Companion 3.699 Beta (Mar 13, 2018)

  • Fix for episode info shown in lower case.
  • Fix in place for MediaCompanion update checking, but this will not take effect till 3.699b is released.
  • NEW:
  • Fixed: - TV - Fix episode nfo being read in lower case only. - MC - Fix check for Update, now checks Kodi forum for updated version number. - MC - Revert download of images from Background Tasks as race conditions are present, and unable to correctly handle artwork resizing. - Movie - Fix Batch rescrape if failure to get data from TMDb or IMDb. - Movie - Batch rescrape if no IMDBId, last resort check filename for Id. - Movie - Fix <rating> and <votes> tags not applying from IMDb only scraping. - Movie - Fix Change Movie if TMDB and enabled AllowAdultSearch. - Movie - Fix new format ratings, not storing value correctly. - MusicVideo - Fixes in retrieving data from Wikipedia. - MusicVideo - Code fixing for Wiki pages. - TV - Fixed artwork downloading not obeying image sizing options.

New in Media Companion 3.698 Beta (Mar 12, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix check for Update, now checks Kodi forum for updated version number.
  • MC - Revert download of images from Background Tasks as race conditions are present, and unable to correctly handle artwork resizing.
  • Movie - Fix Batch rescrape if failure to get data from TMDb or IMDb.
  • Movie - Batch rescrape if no IMDBId, last resort check filename for Id.
  • Movie - Fix <rating> and <votes> tags not applying from IMDb only scraping.
  • Movie - Fix Change Movie if TMDB and enabled AllowAdultSearch.
  • Movie - Fix new format ratings, not storing value correctly.
  • MusicVideo - Fixes in retrieving data from Wikipedia.
  • MusicVideo - Code fixing for Wiki pages.
  • TV - Fixed artwork downloading not obeying image sizing options.

New in Media Companion 3.697 Beta (Feb 23, 2018)

  • Fix for TMDb Movie scraping.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix batch rescrape wizard Series Actors if from TMDb.
  • MC - Pad out Actor Id's to 7 characters in length. Keeps in line with ID's from IMDb, and fixes error when saving to numerical folders.
  • Movie - Fix issue where Actor Id's were converted to Integer, removing leading zero's.
  • Movie - Update TMDB scraper.

New in Media Companion 3.696 Beta (Feb 21, 2018)

  • New:
  • MC - Add setting to allow running multiple Media Companions. Recommend only from different folders.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Add correct file for E-AC-3 audio codec.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape Ratings and Votes from IMDb when using TMDb scraper and merge Rating and Votes from IMDb into one option.
  • Movie - Store TMDb and IMDb Rating and Votes in movie nfo.
  • Movie - Correctly get MetaCritic data from IMDb.
  • Movie - Refactor IMDB ratings/votes and MetaCritic data.
  • Movie - Batch rescraper alphabetical listing of options. Refactoring.
  • Movie - if not selected 'Include Missing video file' option, then exclude general filter 'Missing Video file (x)'.
  • Movie - Refactor Movie IMDb, IMPA posters to external dll's to reduce code duplication and improve code maintenance.
  • TV - Add image downloading to background tasks.

New in Media Companion 3.695 Beta (Feb 9, 2018)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added to General Filter, 'In Top250' filter. Lists only users movies in the Top250.
  • TV - Browser tab style change.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - If Delete movie nfo & artwork, do not delete trailer.
  • Movie - Fix scraping movie if external subs and no Language code in sub file name, set language to "und".
  • Movie - Fix Internal Subs and no Language set, set language to "und"
  • MC - Fix Genre pop-box not showing if genre not in list of genre's.

New in Media Companion 3.694 Beta (Feb 1, 2018)

  • New:
  • MC - Change layout of some Movie Preferences, make more sensible.
  • MC - Moved user TMDB api field to Preferences > Common tab.
  • Movie - Rework Actor Source. Removed options from IMDB/TMDb scraper box, new Actor Source groupbox on Movie -> Scraper tab just above 'Apply & Close' button.
  • Movie - New option to not save nfo if Failed Scrape.
  • Movie - New option store Original Title in Sort Title field.
  • Movie - Table View, add Tags column.
  • Movie - Update Kodi TMDb scraper.
  • Movie - SubTitle filter, change Unassigned to None description and filter None correctly.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix ExtraFanart from TMDb. (TV And Movie)
  • Movie - Change trailer button to get url and download trailer if showing 'Download Trailer'.
  • Movie - Fix Actors that have quotes instead of apostrophe around their AKA names.
  • Movie - Fix keywords from IMDb.
  • Movie - Fix 'Missing Local Actor' filter.
  • TV - If user not downloading season art, don't check and download when scraping episodes.
  • TV - Fix Batch rescrape episode TMDb Id's
  • TV - Fix progress message during episode scraping.
  • TV - Handle episode filename if extension duplicated in filename, ie 720p.mkvcage.br.mkv.
  • TV - Fix saving of series tags.

New in Media Companion 3.680 Beta (Sep 29, 2017)

  • New:
  • MC - Change update check to SourceForge page.
  • MC - Change all links to SourceForge site.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix issue Drag Drop series.
  • TV - Series fix for proto loading of xml file with duplicate nodes (fix for multiple Genres in tvshow.nfo)
  • Movie - Improved export file routine to incorporate if Movie is in a folder, and Use folder or All movies in folders option selected.
  • Movie - Fix display of Votes
  • Movie - 2nd fix for movie scrape if local <moviename>.jpg exists.
  • Movie - Fix Saving of Collection Fanart. Improve loading/cancellation of Fanart Loading on Fanart Tabs specially on F5 Refresh.
  • MusicVideo - Cosmetic change.

New in Media Companion 3.678 Beta (Sep 8, 2017)

  • New:
  • MC - Add MC Fanart.Tv API key.
  • TV - Addition of <uniqueid type=> loading and saving.
  • TV - Addition of new <ratings> field from Kodi.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fix downloading images from Fanart.TV
  • Movie - Ignore empty Tag entry in movie nfo.
  • Movie - Save user entered tags.
  • Movie - Fix MPAA certificate from IMDb.
  • Movie - Fix save Runtime as DurationInSeconds.
  • TV - Disable ep ratings from Omdbapi till API key, or site becomes free again.
  • TV - Fix Episode renaming if multiple spaces at end of title returned from TVDb.

New in Media Companion 3.677 Beta (Jul 19, 2017)

  • New:
  • Movie - Allow download during scrape of all movie set art from Fanart.Tv.
  • TV - add option to save basic episode nfo if episode not found on TVDb. (This will allow users to manually add data to episodes that are not on TVDb site.)
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix for rename if current and new episode names match but have different casing.
  • Movie - Update Kodi TMDb scraper due to API changes.
  • Movie - Fix IMDb scraping title.

New in Media Companion 3.676 Beta (Jun 2, 2017)

  • New:
  • Tv - Add DVD episode number to episode nfo (for future use).
  • TV - Add Rating overlay for TV Series Fanart.
  • Movie - Add check if actor image is present, then don't download image unless user has allowed overwrite thumbs.
  • MC - Add option to only store actors that have downloadable thumbnails.
  • Preferences - Add F3 to Apply and close, F4 to Apply, Esc to close.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Catch couple errors if data not returned from TVDb, some code clean-up.
  • TV - Catch error if corrupt image downloaded, allow continue scraping episodes.
  • TV - Correct issue of cultural decimal separator for Rating overlay.
  • TV - Refresh all only load cache data from nfo's else memory usage over large volume of episodes can cause out of memory.
  • TV - Catch corrupt xml download.
  • TV - On manual Episode rename, check if file exists first, as we get details from Cache.
  • TV - Fix a crash if nfo no longer exists.
  • Movie - Fix TMDB change movie not getting tmdb Id from url.
  • Movie - Fix enabling XBMC Link after making preference changes.
  • Movie - Fix Multi-mode saving would merge every movies tags together, if no changes were made.
  • MC - Fix saving of PathSubstitution xml file.
  • MC - Fix where autoscreenshot delay was not updated after preference change.

New in Media Companion 3.673 Beta (Feb 24, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • MC - Addition of custom omdbapi url entry, for Patrons of Omdbapi, in General Preferences.
  • FIXES:
  • TV - Correct logic for getting data from IMDB.
  • TV - Catch and handle response if OMDBAPI returns Series/Season not found.
  • TV - add Batch Rescrape episode IMDB Id's.
  • TV - Fix loading multi-episode nfo's.
  • TV - Set Watched/Unwatched correctly updates Treeview.
  • mc_com - fix episodes not saving episode IMDB Id.
  • Movie - fix IMDB Id from OMDBAPI.

New in Media Companion 3.672 Beta (Feb 24, 2017)

  • FIXES:
  • mc_com.exe - Honor option Download Episode Thumbnail.
  • Movie - Add option to exclude scraping with found Year value.
  • Movie - Fix finding of movie year if four digits in root folder path, ie 1080p.
  • Movie - If Rescrape year, then clear the year before rescrape.
  • Movie - Make movie search by Omdbapi to get IMDb Id the last resort.
  • TV - fix boolean logic return from epGetImdbRatingOmdbapi.
  • MusicVideo - Improve search if year present.
  • MusicVideo - Remove stupid MessageBox if error.

New in Media Companion 3.671 Beta (Feb 10, 2017)

  • New:
  • TV - Add option Download Episode Thumbnail. (default = enabled). Users can unselect if they wish.
  • Fixes:
  • mc_com - fix path to save log file.
  • Movie - Fixed year returned as 1850 if scraping using foldername for title and year.
  • Movie - Fixed Delete Movie Folder, if user has disabled 'Get Folder Size for Movie(s)'.
  • MusicVideo - Poster and Fanart only save as <filename>-poster.jpg, <filename>.tbn and <filename>-fanart.jpg.
  • MusicVideo - Set preferred images as <filename>-poster.jpg and <filename>-fanart.jpg.

New in Media Companion 3.670 Beta (Feb 2, 2017)

  • Bug fixes and a few requests completed.
  • Plus, some major reworking of the Home Movie sections, means better searching and association of Home Movies.
  • New:
  • Movie - Add option save Set overview to Movie nfo. Requires Kodi 17 onwards.
  • Movie - Allow editing of Set overview, and update affected movie(s) overview if saved to nfo.
  • Movie - Add Autoscrape timer. Set and let MC Autoscrape movies every x minutes. Setting in Movie Preferences -> Advanced tab.
  • Tv - Add AutoScrape timer. Set and let MC Autoscrape Episodes every X Minutes. Timer Autoscrape has Log display Disabled.
  • HomeMovie - Scan for new Home Movie using Movie search routine. Allows better support for video_ts and VR_MOVIE.VRO structures.
  • HomeMovie - Added Genre field and Droplist support.
  • MC - Add support for VRO media extension.
  • Movies - 'Delete movie folder' validation -> Folder size at least 10MB, Media size at least 10MB & Media size at least 63% of the folder size (code applicable for one movies in separate folders only)
  • Fixed:
  • TV - If Ratings and Votes from IMDB, try IMDB first, Omdbapi second, finally fallback TVDb.
  • MC_COM - Fixed to exclude scanning of Excluded folders.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape set info where movie has tmdbid = "0" and is not matched to a collection.

New in Media Companion 3.669 Beta (Jan 10, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • Movie - Add context option on Movie Sets tab to rescrape Collection data. Must have valid TMDB Set ID.
  • Movie - Export Movie List of Selected Movies. IE: Select specific movies to export to template.
  • Movie - Added: Delete movie folder to grid view context menu. Preference option to enable this in Movie Preferences, General Tab. NB: must have option 'All Movies are in Folders' enabled. Caution: Will delete to Recycle Bin, except if recycle bin disabled or files stored on NAS.
  • Movie - add General Filter - Missing Video File. Will list all movie titles where a nfo exists, but the video file is not present with the nfo.
  • mc_com - Get mc_com path, remove necessity to CD into directory before calling mc_com.exe.
  • MC - Updated ffmpeg from new source for Win XP to Win 10 compatibility.
  • TV - add option save votes with comma deliminator (default = True).
  • FIXED:
  • TV - Fix getting episode Rating and Votes from IMDb, with fallback to TVDb.
  • TV - Fix getting and storing actor images from IMDb for Episodes.
  • Movie - Fix for no Certificate from TMDb on rescrape.
  • Movie - Fixed Rescrape title, also populate Alternative Titles if options selected.

New in Media Companion 3.668 Beta (Dec 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • MC - Add option to pad runtime to 3 digits.
  • Update mediainfo.dll to 0.7.91. Fixed for Xp through to Windows 10.
  • Update ffmpeg.exe to latest version.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - correct loading of Kodi 17 created nfo's from Library Export.
  • mc_com - fix not updating Kodi scraper settings on load of profiles.

New in Media Companion 3.667 Beta (Dec 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • MC - Add option to exclude ID appended to actor image filename if saving to Local actor path.
  • MC - Update to use Media Companion's own TMDB API Key.
  • Update mediainfo dll to version 0.7.90. XP users still need to keep a copy of Mediainfo.dll 0.7.81 for their use with Media Companion.
  • Movie - Make fallback of actor sources optional, default is to fallback.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix max studios when scraping from TMDb.
  • Movie - on Rescrape of Collection info, remove from Custom Sets if TMDB Set was scraped.
  • Movie - Fix Typo saving of tags instead of tag node name.
  • Movie - Fix issue renaming of files, creating .nfo.nfo files.
  • Preferences - Fix option not displaying on load of preferences.

New in Media Companion 3.666 Beta (Nov 4, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • MC - convert calls to support long path (exceeds MAX_PATH of 260 characters).
  • Movie - MovieSet tab, Display Collection overview, Show year against collection movie(s) and sort by year.
  • TV - Add option to display tooltip over tv show of next-to-air episode, only if Display Missing episodes is also enabled.
  • TV - Add filter only show Next-To-Air Episode.
  • FIXES:
  • Movie - Fixed Introduced bug when saving Movie nfo.
  • Movie - Fix if rescrape set info, and movie wasn't already in a set.
  • Movie - Fix creation of offlineDVD video clip.
  • Movie - Fix sets display on Table view. Fix sets saving from Tableview.

New in Media Companion 3.664 Beta (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Movie - Fixed up code around getting the Year from the filename - wouldn't scrape if flanked by spaces.
  • MC - Fix Aspect Ratio.
  • MC - Enlarge audio language overlay. Fix aspect ratio to 2 decimal places.
  • TV - fix mc_com save location of series xml file.

New in Media Companion 3.663 Beta (Sep 23, 2016)

  • Movie - Fix change year when change movie and movie title is same, Fixes for IMDB & TMDb scrape and re-scrape and Change Movie.
  • Movies - Fix saving tags from new Tags tab.
  • Movie - Fix duplicate sets displayed on Movie Sets tab.
  • Movie - Fix select IMDb or TMDb web browser tab by right-click.
  • Movie - better displaying of Set info on Movie Set tab.
  • Movie - Do not display forced subtitle in mediaoverlay.
  • Movie - Honor option to get or not to get TMDB Set info.
  • Movie - Changes to Movie Sets tab functionality. Allow rename existing Movie sets.
  • Movie - Fix display of double year in progress bar when scraping via IMDb.
  • TV - Screenshots preview load every 1 second for each five pictureboxes.
  • TV - Fix incorrect code to populate year from premiered date.

New in Media Companion 3.662 Beta (Sep 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added lockunlock field to prevent unwanted scraper changes. Currently only implemented for the movie set field.
  • Fixes:
  • Movie - Revert AR from TechSpec page of IMDb, Get from movie's main page.
  • Movie - Major refactoring of Movie Set code, and functionality.
  • Movie - Added option save SetId as and load if nfo has - Request.
  • Movie - Get rid of annoying pop-up message on MovieSets tab.
  • Movie - Movie Set Cache populated from nfo's on Refresh, flagged as dirty till rescrape of TMDb set info.
  • MC - Fix code for external browser, add catchs if failure occurs.

New in Media Companion 3.661 Beta (Aug 19, 2016)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added 'Open TMDb Set Info Page' & 'Open TMDb Movie Info Page' to gridview context menu.
  • Movie - Added 'Missing from set unreleased' filter.
  • Movie - Added Year to missing in set grid view records
  • Fixes:
  • Movie - Fix bug where incomplete movie set info was incomplete.
  • Movie - Fix bug in number of movies got in a set where duplicates counted.
  • Movie - Fix saving of Tags from Browser tab and Movie & Tags Tab.
  • Movie - ExtraThumbs on Fanart Tab, remove requirement to have Allow ExtraThumbs option selected.
  • Movie - If Change Movie, use Year from selected Movie not from filename or folder title.
  • mc_com - Fix create episode screenshot when episode has been renamed.

New in Media Companion 3.660 Beta (Aug 12, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Movie - Export list of Movies missing from Collection(s).
  • Instructions:
  • Rescrape 'Tmdb set info'.
  • Select: 'General Filter - Missing from set'
  • File->Export movie list info -> Movie set & title. *
  • FIXED:
  • TV - Fix Poster/Banner saving from Poster tab.
  • Movie - Get IMDb AR ensure not negative ratio unless its the only AR listed.
  • MC - fix Mono PCM not saving channel as 1.
  • MC - Correct screen position if negative values.
  • MC - ErrorHandler screen only display in Main screen.
  • MC - Update/fix mceventlog standalone app.

New in Media Companion 3.658 Beta (Aug 4, 2016)

  • TV - Fix scraping only one episode.
  • TV - Fix reading of Sickbeard created nfo.
  • TV - Fix display of locked series status in treeview.
  • Movie - Fix subtitle display logic.
  • Movies - Fanart and Posters from TMDb sorted by highest votes first.
  • NEW:
  • Movie - New scrape option if poster exists as .jpg, use and rename to -poster.jpg.
  • Movie - Get Aspect from IMDB option added to TMDb scraper.
  • Movie - Added DTS:X and Dolby Atmos detection and overlay icons. * NB You need to rescrape media tags on your TrueHD and DTS movies *
  • Movie - Add : Dolby Atmos detection and overlay icons.
  • Movie - Complete reorganization of Tags, including Tag Filter, Min & Max and Sort order. Tags stored in external file.
  • Movie - Addition of Metascore from IMDb. Click label 'Top 250' to toggle display between Top 250 and Metascore.
  • Movie - Get Metascore from IMDb added to XBMC TMDb scraper options. Added to Rescrape and Batch wizard.
  • Movie - Add to Batch Rescrape Wizard option IMDB Aspect Ratio.
  • MC - Include subtitle language in media overlay. Option to show all subtitle languages.
  • MC - Add multiselect to videosource list.
  • TV - Display Series Votes. Now Scrape votes and ratings from IMDb (fallback TVDb) for Series and Episodes.
  • FIXED:
  • MC - Correct issue of MC remaining resident after opening Media Companion Home Page.
  • Movie - Better catch in rare instance of failure to get stream details.
  • Movie - Improve retrieve a poster from IMDb.
  • Movie - IMDb scrape, first search omdbapi, then google, final fallback to IMDb itself.
  • Movie - Fix Insert resolution as first tag.
  • Movie - Fix multi mode edit and altering Tag box.
  • TV - Fix for msgbox remaining visible if crash in TV Selector tab.
  • TV - Fix Series Sort Title display if select Season.
  • TV - Catch crash if Batch rescrape and episodes were removed but MC not Refreshed.
  • TV - Refresh TV Folders location if multi-monitor, ensure displays on monitor of Splash Screen, and in front of splash screen...
  • TV - Honor option Series Actors to be copied to Episode actors.
  • TV - Fix IMDb Actor Role being truncated of last letter.
  • MC - Changed "XBMC Media Companion" to "Media Companion for XBMCKodi" where relevant.
  • MC - Updated mediainfo.dll and fixed mediainfo related DurationMillis & Bitrate functions

New in Media Companion 3.657 Beta (Aug 2, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Movie - New scrape option if poster exists as .jpg, use and rename to -poster.jpg.
  • Movie - Get Aspect from IMDB option added to TMDb scraper.
  • Movie - Added DTS:X and Dolby Atmos detection and overlay icons. * NB You need to rescrape media tags on your TrueHD and DTS movies *
  • Movie - Add : Dolby Atmos detection and overlay icons.
  • Movie - Complete reorganization of Tags, including Tag Filter, Min & Max and Sort order. Tags stored in external file.
  • Movie - Addition of Metascore from IMDb. Click label 'Top 250' to toggle display between Top 250 and Metascore.
  • Movie - Get Metascore from IMDb added to XBMC TMDb scraper options. Added to Rescrape and Batch wizard.
  • Movie - Add to Batch Rescrape Wizard option IMDB Aspect Ratio.
  • MC - Include subtitle language in media overlay. Option to show all subtitle languages.
  • MC - Add multiselect to videosource list.
  • TV - Display Series Votes. Now Scrape votes and ratings from IMDb (fallback TVDb) for Series and Episodes.
  • FIXED:
  • MC - Correct issue of MC remaining resident after opening Media Companion Home Page.
  • Movie - Better catch in rare instance of failure to get stream details.
  • Movie - Improve retrieve a poster from IMDb.
  • Movie - IMDb scrape, first search omdbapi, then google, final fallback to IMDb itself.
  • Movie - Fix Insert resolution as first tag.
  • Movie - Fix multi mode edit and altering Tag box.
  • TV - Fix for msgbox remaining visible if crash in TV Selector tab.
  • TV - Fix Series Sort Title display if select Season.
  • TV - Catch crash if Batch rescrape and episodes were removed but MC not Refreshed.
  • TV - Refresh TV Folders location if multi-monitor, ensure displays on monitor of Splash Screen, and in front of splash screen...
  • TV - Honor option Series Actors to be copied to Episode actors.
  • TV - Fix IMDb Actor Role being truncated of last letter.
  • MC - Changed "XBMC Media Companion" to "Media Companion for XBMCKodi" where relevant.
  • MC - Updated mediainfo.dll and fixed mediainfo related DurationMillis & Bitrate functions

New in Media Companion 3.656 Beta (Jul 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • Movie - Add -theme.extn as possible trailer file. Suits add-on Tvtunes.
  • Movie - New option to save Resolution to first tag entry. Populate by Rescrape Media Stream details, or rescrape tags. (Resolution values stored are 480, 540, 576, 720 & 1080).
  • MC - Exclude .recycle.bin folder from being added as Movie, Music Video or TV Series folder.
  • TV - Screenshot tab get 5 preview images to choose from for the Thumbnail.
  • Music Video - Screenshot Tab get 5 Preview Images to choose from for Fanart.
  • Home Video - Screenshot Tab get 5 Preview Images to choose from for Fanart.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix poster tab calculation of total posters if more than one page. (also fixed Alt poster browser).
  • Movie - Replace ask.com with duckduckgo search engine. We use multiple search engines when searching for the IMDB Id.
  • Movie - XBMC Link, fix parent form since move of preferences to new Preferences Window.

New in Media Companion 3.655 Beta (Jun 24, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • TV - New option to limit quantity of genre's scraped for TV Series.
  • FIXED:
  • TV - Fix MC TVDb getting episodes in DVD sort order, and rescrape correct thumbnail if in DVD sort order.
  • TV - Fix tvshow selector using XBMC TVDb scraper and getting actors and their images.
  • Movie - Better catching if sites are not available for Movie Alt artwork selectors.
  • mc_com - Fix export by date added, correctly invert order.

New in Media Companion 3.653 Beta (Jun 14, 2016)

  • New:
  • TV - Addition of Votes from TVDb for episodes. Users can Batch Rescrape episodes, selecting Rating, which will update Rating and Votes.
  • TV - add option to get Episode Rating & Votes from IMDB.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Rescrape Episode Media tags improve and catch errors better.
  • TV - After Save on TV Folder Tab, return to Main TV Browser tab.
  • Tv - Switch back to non-proto loading of tvshow.nfo.
  • TV - Save multiple genres as separate entries in tvshow.nfo.
  • Movie - Add to genre "Tv Movie" if IMDb list move also TV Movie.
  • Movie - Catch and log error downloading actor image instead of opening a messagebox.
  • MC - Fix Aspect Ratio where returned value has cultural decimal character.
  • MC - Simplify Statusstrip display.
  • MC - creating m3u message now displayed on status bar

New in Media Companion 3.652 Beta (May 20, 2016)

  • New:
  • Music Video (MV) - Add Multi-Edit mode.
  • Movie - New option to scrape Aspect Ratio from IMDb. Only for MC scraper, not XBMC TMDb scraper.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - If Episode has Aired Date and Season-Episode numbers, prefer Season-Episode over Aired Date.
  • TV - Fix tvdb tab display navigation icons.
  • TV - Fix Refresh All once and for all.
  • MV - Fix not finding Music Video if container not in nfo.
  • MV - Fix tabstop order.
  • MC - Add missing PCM image resource.
  • MC - Show aspect ratio value in mediainfo overlay if not true 16x9 or 4x3 ratio.
  • MC - use container .bdmv instead of m2ts for Bluray.

New in Media Companion 3.651 Beta (May 18, 2016)

  • New:
  • MC - Add option AutoHide status bar. Set by default.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix Refresh All for TV Shows that do not contain .
  • TV - Fix TV Show rescrape using XBMC TVDb scraper.
  • Movie - Fanart Scrolling while images load, do not lock to 1st image.
  • Movie - Correctly Fix Tags displayed after editing on Tags tab.
  • Movie - Fix Batch Rescraping TMDB Set names, and Batch Rescraping Movie Set artwork.
  • Movie - Fix keeping cached MovieSet info on scraping new Movie to a Set.
  • MC - Correct downsizing poster or fanart via context menu.

New in Media Companion 3.650 Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Disable incompatible general filter, Incomplete Movie Set Info. Users can select 'Sets' filter to display how many movies of total movies in a set.
  • Movie - Return actor order number to actors scraped from IMDb.
  • Movie - Fixed posters from IMPA.
  • Movie - Alt Poster, Fix IMPA posters. Streamline code.
  • Movie - Ignore errors relating to artwork from TMDb if movie is not present on TMDb.
  • Movie - Fix Tags displayed after editing om Tags tab.
  • Movie - Batch Wizard, correct logic for selecting Rename Files.
  • MC - Enable default option to close MC if chosen to DL new release.
  • TV - Fixed F5 on Main Browser tab.
  • TV - If search by Airdate fails, attempt fallback to Season-Episode numbers

New in Media Companion 3.649 Beta (Apr 15, 2016)

  • New:
  • MC - Downgrade Mediainfo dll to version 0.7.81.0. Report if any regression in stream details scraped.
  • Movie - Add option to not delete custom folder.jpg image during autoscrape artwork.
  • Movie & TV - Completed background threads for loading of preview Fanart, Poster and Fanart.Tv artwork.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix removing Year if nfo year value is zero.
  • TV - Fix if Premier date, but year is zero, correct year value.
  • TV - Fix removal of series title from episode filename if series title is a number, ie: 24..
  • TV - Fix incorrect option for toggling stream detail info.
  • TV - Improve Episode scraping speed (minor).
  • TV - Improve renaming of episodes with correct titlecase of Series name.
  • TV - Catch multipart episode filename is not a multipart, still save first part.
  • TV - Update series.xml if older than 5 days, not 14 days.
  • TV - Episode thumbnail fall back to tvdb if not in series.xml.
  • TV - Rescrape episode thumb to also fallback to tvdb if not in series.xml file.
  • Movie - Load Fanart tab images in multiple backgroundworkers. Improve loading of preview images.
  • Movie - Load Poster tab images into backgroundworkers.
  • Movie - Fix Posters Tab from IMDb and IMPA. Disabled MPDB as requires login credentials.
  • Movie - Improve support for UTF-8 Characters in Movie filenames.
  • Movie - If Batch Rescrape, do not overwrite tagline if scraped tagline is empty.

New in Media Companion 3.648 Beta (Mar 18, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Bug fix: Some DTSHD-MA audio tracks being incorrectly recognised as DTS.
  • Movie - Rework MovieSet code and fix MovieSet tab.
  • CustomTV - Fixed few dumb errors regarding customtvcache.xml file code.

New in Media Companion 3.647 Beta (Mar 10, 2016)

  • New:
  • TV - Scrape by Aired Date. Accepts yyyy.mm.dd with dot, dash or underscore between values.
  • Fixed:
  • MusicVideo - Fix crash if option 'Include Missing Video file in Cache rebuild' enabled.
  • Movie - Re-enable shortcut keys for genre box.
  • Movie - Fix batch rescrape xtrafanart/thumbs.
  • MC - Remove filters.txt as replaced by genres.txt.
  • MC - Attempt fix closing of MC if downloading of Update.

New in Media Companion 3.646 Beta (Mar 1, 2016)

  • New:
  • Movie - New scraper preference, User TMDB API key.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Minor issue with variables causing halt to loading of posters during scrape.
  • TV - Fix Wall view layout and context menu.
  • TV - TVDb browser tab, handle links.
  • TV - TVDb browser tab, add some navigation controls, fwd, back, stop & refresh.
  • Movie - Web browser tab, add navigation controls.
  • Movie - Fix wrong poster from Alternative Poster form.

New in Media Companion 3.645 Beta (Mar 1, 2016)

  • New:
  • Movie - New option to save scraped run time into .
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Change MC TMDb API key to Kodi key temporarily, fixes scraping artwork from TMDb.
  • MC - Allow Crtl-A for multi-line textboxes.
  • Preferences - Fix blunder when general and common tabs were merged.
  • TV - Fix wall Context Menu.

New in Media Companion 3.644 Beta (Mar 1, 2016)

  • New:
  • MC Preferences - Merge main Common and General Tabs to reduce confusion and simplify.
  • Movie - Complete addition of Screen-shot of Fanart, only if no fanart available, else hidden.
  • TV - Addition of Wall tab, showing TV Series.
  • TV - filter watched/unwatched similar to Series Status. Only shows series matching watched or unwatched.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Make Fanart and Poster shrink when progress bar visible, keeping media-overlay visible.
  • Music Video - Fix displaying music video on key up/down in list.
  • MC - Revert ffmpeg.exe to previous version. New version has no advantages and we save 15MB in file size.
  • MC - improve speed of obtaining screenshot.

New in Media Companion 3.643 Beta (Feb 24, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • MC Export to Kodi Format - Rework all routines, catching empty values, and cleaning code.
  • MC - Update ffmpeg.exe
  • After deliberation, Update mediainfo.dll to ver 0.7.82.0.
  • Movie - rework on MovieSet code, to ensure no duplicates in moviesetcache file, and keep scraped collection data.
  • Movie - Exclude folder wasn't working on Refresh, only on Scrape.
  • Movie - Fix XBMC TMDb scraping.

New in Media Companion 3.642 Beta (Feb 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • MC - Add common preference to show Custom Genre's at start of Genre selection box.
  • Movie - TMDB Scrape, add option to get Genres from IMDB.
  • Movie - Add User Ratings to Movies, with Sort by User Rating, User Rating Filter, Tableview, and Alternative Editor.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix Root Folder filter.
  • Movie - Rework MovieSet filtering to support custom sets with no SetId.
  • Movie - Change Missing Credits to Missing Writer.
  • Movie - General Filter increase slightly number if items displayed at one time.
  • Movie - Fix quotes in Outline and Tagline.
  • Movie - Change where Minimum actors or directors is set if Max actors or directors is greater than 999.
  • Movie - Catch error if incorrect value given to resize filter splitcontainer.
  • Home Movie - Addition of Preferences, Fanart and Poster Screenshot Time.
  • Music Video - Improve searching, Improve artwork from Wiki.

New in Media Companion 3.641 Beta (Feb 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • Preferences - Changed naming and function of Apply, Cancel buttons.
  • Movie - New Preference Enable/Disable Getting Folder Size. Default value is disable.
  • Movie - Increase Max Actors and Directors to 10,000 (default is still 500), but if set over 999, set minimum to 2 films to offset performance hit.
  • Movie - New Filter RootFolder.
  • MC - New option to close MC if user accepts to download new version.
  • MC - Check for new version before loading cache files.
  • MC - Add Custom Genre file Creator/Editor.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix TMDB Scraping of Movie Set when option not enabled.
  • Movie - Fix Renaming of Folder with %1 option, use MovieSet name if also includes %N.
  • Movie - Fix Renaming of Folders with %1 and/or %N not moving fanart.tv files.
  • Movie - Fix typo halting display of Missing Credits Movies.
  • Movie - When sort by Cert, allow sort list when clicking on column header.
  • Movie - Incorporate loading of Ember created nfo's.
  • Movie - disable get folder size if movie is in root folder. Major speed boost on refresh.
  • Movie - Fix DurationInSeconds from MakeMKV created MKV files.
  • Movie - Improve loading time on Fanart and Poster Tabs.
  • Movie - Correctly support ignore articles on Folder and/or move Rename options.
  • Movie - Returned to fix detecting multipart movie with likes of Spartans, and Life Partners, causing issues.

New in Media Companion 3.640 Beta (Jan 20, 2016)

  • New:
  • Movies: Allow users to enter their own tags. You need to enable it in preferences.
  • Movies: Add new general filter 'Outline contains html'
  • Movies: Add new option to Include 'Rated' prefix to Certificate.
  • Movies: Allow users to create their own Certificate mappings file, called 'UserCertificateMappings.xml', which if exists, will be used in preference to 'DefaultCertificateMappings.xml'
  • Movies: Addition of %1 to folder renaming. Will create a Sub folder from first letter of Movie Title (All articles are ignored).
  • Movies: Added General Filters for Missing Premier date, Credits, Studio & Country.
  • Movies: Added General Filter for Plot same as Outline.
  • Movies: Addition of sort by Resolution and by Certificate.
  • TV - Allow altering of Episode Title.
  • TV - Add right-click to web browser tab to select TVDB or IMDB.
  • Fixed:
  • Movies - Number of audio tracks not always shown in overlay graphics.
  • Movies - TrueHD audio codec detection for overlay graphics.
  • Movies - Filters - Removed unwanted behavior - Right click on filter reset the filter.
  • Movies - Modify check for 'Part'.
  • Movies - Remove cached file if zero byte size.
  • Movies - Fix scraping Outline if contains hyperlink.
  • Movies - Fix if no plot or outline - don't save 'add a plot'.
  • Movies - Remove phrases 'on appeal' from MPAA if remove phrase selected.
  • Movies - Sort all Root folder lists.
  • Movies - Rework Actor Images on Scrape and Change Movie.
  • Movies - Correctly support fallback of actor source.
  • Movies - TMDB Option changed to DL Actors from IMDB with fallback to TMDb.
  • Movies - Move exclude 'Rated' from Certificate to the Certification Priority.
  • Movies - Update IMDB scraper for future.
  • Movies - Addition of OMDB scrape RottenTomato data for future.
  • Movies - Fix Folder Renaming if Multiple movies in subfolder.
  • Movies - Fix some more Preferences.
  • Movies - Batch rescrape only empty main tags, processes only movies with empty main tags.
  • Movies - Fix outline from IMDB with 'See full summary'
  • Preferences - Fix Preference locate external browser button.

New in Media Companion 3.639 Beta (Dec 18, 2015)

  • New:
  • MV - Addition of Scraping Concerts via TheMovieDb Scraper.
  • MV - Concert Video artwork from TheMovieDb.
  • Movie - Option to remove Phrases after MPAA Certificate.
  • Movie - Apply Remove Phrase and Rating on MPAA at Scrape level.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix Get Runtime IMDB if movie less than 60 minutes.
  • Movie - Correct MovieSet Display on select if Ignore MovieSet Article.
  • Movie - Fix IMDB Tagline again.
  • MCPreferences - Add missing MovieToolTip option.

New in Media Companion 3.638 Beta (Dec 16, 2015)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added option to Auto-load TMDB Posters when switching to Movie Poster Tab. Option in Movie Preferences -> General Tab.
  • Movie - Addition of KeyWord Blacklist. Add each word(s) separate with a semi-colon.
  • TV - Add Option to rename episode filenames with Dot or Underscore in place of Spaces.
  • Fixed:
  • MV - Fix Music Video search or refresh affecting Movie Browser list loss of scroll bar.
  • MV - Fix Open Wiki page when tab is selected.
  • Export - Addressing JockBonds media export issues - Added missing NFO fields. (HueyHQ)
  • TV - When leaving Fanart.TV tab, update the pictureboxes incase of changed artwork.
  • TV - Fix scrape season if season number same as Year of Series Premier.
  • TV - Fix Download & Display of Season art if Season is by Year.
  • Movie - Refresh Movie Poster and Fanart after leaving Fanart.TV tab.
  • Movie - Fanart.TV tab, fix preview existing image if naming mode is - format.
  • Movie - Custom change to TMDB scraper to get Movie Set ID during scrape.
  • Movie - Update MovieSet Title in Browser Drop Box (not Filterbox).
  • Movie - Fallback to Movie's Tech Spec page for Runtime if not available on main page.
  • Movie - Fix IMDB Outline and Votes by adjusting their Regex strings. Also fixed Stars.
  • MCPreferences - Reload Scraper settings on exit of Preferences so new settings are active.
  • MCPreferences - Fix loading of Proxy tab.
  • MCPreferences - Add option to move Ignored articles to end of MovieSet Title.

New in Media Companion 3.514 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • Completely rewrite the filters.
  • Bugs fixed around it.
  • Filters around the movie format is now working

New in Media Companion 3.637 Beta (Dec 9, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes in Preferences as I expected. But also some new features added.
  • NEW:
  • Main change is the IMDB/TMDB Browser tab within Movies section. When selected users were offered the option of browsing TMDB or IMDB every time this tab was selected. Instead, change IMDB or TMDB browsing by right-clicking the tab header before selecting the tab. This switches between IMDB or TMDB heading. Now this selection will be the default when you enter the tab, every time. No annoying pop-up selection every entry of this tab.
  • Movies. Users could press a Alphabet key and the browser list would automatically scroll to the first movie starting with the key pressed. Now, Users can also type multiple characters to get closer to matching movies. ie: before only 1 key press. 'M' jumps to start of 'M' Movies. Now, type 'MIS' and get close to 'Mission Impossible' movies (just as an example.
  • Preferences had a few bugs after the big shift (kinda expected, but hope'd for the best) This should sort out the remaining glitches.

New in Media Companion 3.635 Beta (Nov 30, 2015)

  • There are a number of fixes in place with this release. and some new features added. Most are self explanatory, so check out the options in Preferences.
  • Couple of new Features:
  • TV - Option to ignore missing specials.
  • TV - changed missing future episodes to highlight in Red.
  • Movie - Rename file name with ignored articles at end.
  • Movie - add option to disregard Original Title, and Alt Titles from nfo.
  • Movie - Reworked TMDB into same routines as MC's IMDB scraper. This will make it easier to add extra scrapers in the future.
  • Movie - Option in Batch rescraper to populate only empty fields.
  • Movie - Option to fill field from Plot Keywords available from IMDB/TMDB.
  • Both - New Media Companion command line option 'r' added to refresh movies & TV caches. (Not for mc_com.exe)
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Save local actor as actor name in folder of first name's first letter. ie: /b/brad_pitt.jpg.
  • Movie - Filter new movies title during scrape for entries already in Source list, add to Source tag automatically.
  • Movie - Added 3DSBS and 3DTAB to separate movie identifier as these need to remain in the filename for XBMC to ID 3D movies correctly.
  • Movie - Warning added if changing movie to delete offline movie instead of changing movie.
  • Movie - Fixed folder renaming with movie set name and ignore article selected or de-selected
  • Movie - fix if using XBMC TMDb, save extrafanart
  • Movie - Fix renaming Folder and moving movie into folder, if duplicate movie, ie: Movie exists in folder already.
  • Movie - Abort File or Folder renaming if movie not identified, ie: Scrape Error.
  • TV - allow saving of local actor image using either TVDb or IMDB actor to local directory.
  • TV - Reworked Missing episode data.
  • TV - added refresh Missing episode data.
  • Mediainfo fixed for XVid files.
  • filter correctly for scene nfo files.

New in Media Companion 3.631 Beta (Nov 4, 2015)

  • New:
  • TV - add option to Batch Rescraper, to copy Main banner to SeasonXX banner if said file is not present.
  • TV - Batch Rescraper new option to update all series xml files.
  • Movie - Add option to save Fanart.Tv artwork in - format. Yet to be implemented in Artwork Downloader.
  • Movies - New renaming tag '๏ฟฝ' for movie folder size. E.g. ๏ฟฝGB for a 3.142 GB folder would display as '3.14GB'
  • Movie - Now search Title or Filename (depends on selected display option)
  • MC - Place Proxy code at all internet calls in Media Companion. Default setting is to use default system proxy. Best option if not using Proxy, is to select None
  • MC - Added 2160 Resolution (4k) and 3D icon overlays.
  • Fixed:
  • MC - Fixed Export as Kodi format of illegal filename characters
  • MC - Set default value to 1
  • MC - Fix help-about splash to close if lost focus.
  • MC - Changed Kodi MC forum link to current forum thread.
  • TV - Catch couple possible issues if values are empty
  • TV - Fixed episode if Rescrape Episode
  • TV - Correct logic error when download missing episode thumbs, only create screenshot if option is selected.

New in Media Companion 3.630 Beta (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix secondary episodes in a Multi-episode file to remove missing episode from Treeview.
  • Movie - Fix rescrape premier date from TMDB.
  • Movie - Fixed Top 250 scrape from IMDB.
  • Movie - Tidied up some naming of export files, added basic template for movie location.
  • Movie - Fixed fanart missing filter if context download fanart.
  • Revert ffmpeg update as nothing new to offer, update was faulty, and update was very large file.le!

New in Media Companion 3.628 Beta (Nov 4, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Movie - MultiSelect Genre Listbox support.
  • FIXED:
  • TV - Episode Renaming with correct Showtitle in episode title!

New in Media Companion 3.627 Beta (Nov 4, 2015)

  • New:
  • TV - Improve series status filtering by only displaying matching series. Coloured treeview background to inform users they're running a filtered list. Update mc_com to load & save tv cache with new hidden tag.
  • Fixed:
  • TV Episode Renaming fix show title in episode rename option.
  • TV - When marking episodes as watched, save all data back to nfo.
  • Movies - Certificate mappings - Add missing entries

New in Media Companion 3.626 Beta (Nov 4, 2015)

  • New:
  • Media Companion x86 build and x64 build.
  • Media Companion - Added Help -> About with info if 32 or 64 bit build.
  • TV - CheckedListBox for TV Root Folders. If unchecking, will remove series from List of Series Folders.
  • TV - TV Root folder CheckedListBox - context menu to add from selected root folder to series list.
  • TV - Added Series Status. Scrape, rescrape, Batch Rescrape Wizard. Continuing, Ended or Unknown.
  • TV - Added filter by Ended or Continuing series status.
  • Movie - New Studio Filter.
  • Movie - Add option to get Alternative titles from IMDB when using TMDB scraper.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Tv Show Selector tab now displays series path for ease of identifying what series is selected.
  • TV - Fixed episodes in separate folders and MC fooled into finding multiepisodes.
  • TV - Fix TV Batch Rescrape not saving folder.jpg to series folder, or to season folders.
  • TV - Improved TV Batch Rescrape speed regarding artwork, ie: check if exists first before downloading.
  • TV - Fixed Tv Actor network path rebuild on Batch Wizard rewrite all nfo's.
  • TV - Export. Added showplot, shownfo:plot, shownfo:showtitle and shownfo:sorttitle.
  • TV - Altered episode scraper to remove Show title and year (if present) to improve matching episode numbers.
  • TV - Don't erase Series XML files every start and stop of MC.
  • Movie - root folder checkbox improvements
  • Movie - Improve speed on rescrape wizard/rescrape specific when XBMC TMDB scraper selected.

New in Media Companion 3.625 Beta (Aug 18, 2015)

  • With Version 3.625b, we are releasing x86 (32bit) and x64 (64 bit) builds. As 64bit builds are new, and a learning curve for me, there may be some bugs that haven't appeared before.
  • So please, Please, if an issue occurs, post up a Issue Report, with copy of config.xml, and step to reproduce the fault.
  • Main issue with 64 bit builds are ensuring the 3rd party files are compatible and operate correctly in a 64bit environment.
  • NEW:
  • Media Companion x86 build and x64 build.
  • TV - Add Missing Aired episode offset option. This will delay aired highlight by 1 day.
  • Movie - Changed Root folder list to a Checked Listbox. Users can now keep all their root movie folders and enable/disable as they wish.
  • FIXED:
  • TV - Fix for Series title with & between words with no spacing.
  • TV - Added drag n drop TV Root folder to List of Root Folders.
  • TV - Add regex for episodes with decimal as separator.
  • TV - Correct Series extrafanart filenaming.
  • TV - Return of poster resolutions under image previews. (where relevant).
  • Home Movies - Fix Home Movie Fanart Zoom.
  • Home Movies - Added Poster to main browser tab.
  • Home Movies - Added option to get poster from screenshot.
  • Movie - Tweak Fanart.Tv code to use TMDB Id before IMDB ID
  • Movie - Fixed IMDB scraping multiple countries.
  • Movie - Return poster resolutions under image previews.
  • General - Memory leak improvements.
  • General - Improve messagebox, allow escape messagebox, cancelling download of preview images

New in Media Companion 3.624 Beta (Jul 17, 2015)

  • New:
  • MediaInfoExport : Added 2 new tags. Useful when creating a template to create a batch copy command file.
  • Export Templates: Add & tags. Also added new 'Copy Movies In Folders' template.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Wall, resize and keep posters within boundaries of form.
  • Movie - Fixed outline from IMDB
  • Movie - Fixed Votes from IMDB
  • Movie - Fixed Fanart/poster if custom MovieSet ID.
  • Movie - Fix IMDB Scraping TMDB info if movie on TMDB does not have IMDB ID set.
  • TV - Stop Media Companion stealing focus from other programs.
  • TV - Fixed XBMC TVDb scraper not reading settings unless enter preferences page.
  • Media Companion - Flashes taskbar when process finished and MC isn't active app.

New in Media Companion 3.623 Beta (Jul 3, 2015)

  • New:
  • Movie - Missing Tagline filter in General Filters.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed internal webbrowser initial exception.
  • Movie - Fixed crash if no MovieSet ID and Download MovieSet Artwork selected to autoscrape.
  • Movie - Fix Countries filter only able to filter by 1st country in nfo.
  • Movie - Change moviesetid fix crash.
  • Movie - XBMC link - Add missing transition.
  • Movie - XBMC link - Downgrade unexpected events to warnings.
  • Movie - XBMC link - Update folder mappings form to mention Kodi's folders are case sensitive.
  • Movie - XBMC link - Fix Retries count not getting updated.
  • Movie - Fix Tagline from IMDB.
  • TV - Fix Scraping special episodes and save folder.jpg selected, but no artwork on TVDB.

New in Media Companion 3.622 Beta (Jun 23, 2015)

  • New:
  • TV - Special episodes, display Airs before Season and Episode info, Allow edit and save.
  • TV - Added XBMC TVDB scraper option to scrape rating from IMDB, with option fallback to TVDB
  • Movies - Countries filter added. * Click the Refresh button to initially populate this filter *
  • Movie - Movie Set Tab, can r-click TMDB column to set or alter the TMDB Set ID.
  • Media Companion - Empty Cache folder now Empty Cache & SeriesXml Folders.
  • mc_com.exe - Scraping episodes now checks Season poster is present, else downloads season poster.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - If saving edits to Episode, update tree-view.
  • TV - Fix folder.jpg if using Find Missing Artwork for TV.
  • TV - Catch rescrape episode with no IMDB Id, scraping actors from IMDB.
  • TV - Catch rescrape episode and no thumb URL crash.
  • TV - Missing artwork, fix logic and don't overwrite existing images
  • TV - If Rescrape TVShow, remove episodes else they are duplicated.
  • TV - On Initial Show scrape, do folder.jpg save (if options selected).
  • TV - Fix save folder.jpg from poster tab for specials folder.
  • TV - Fix checking if season art present when scraping episodes, also check if need folder.jpg.
  • TV - correctly save as folder.jpg from Fanart.tv artwork tab.
  • TV - Initial Show scrape, save folder.jpg after populating existing episodes.
  • Movie - Fixed Movie Set ID Check overwriting customer set names if not found on TMDB.
  • Movie - Movie Sets tab, right-click TMBD ID column to manually set a Set ID.
  • Movie - Fixed scraping TMDB Certificate on initial scrape.
  • Movie - Re-load wall if sort or invert has changed since last wall load.
  • Movie - Fixed TMDB YouTube Trailer URL.
  • Movie - Update XBMC TMDB scraper, Fix get rating from IMDB.
  • Movie - Fixed Movie Fanart.Tv Tab, Zoom existing MovieSet art.
  • Media Companion - Removed "XBMC" from "XBMC Media Companion is already running"
  • mc_com - Fixed scraping specials artwork and specials folder.jpg (if option selected).

New in Media Companion 3.620 Beta (May 16, 2015)

  • New:
  • Movie - MovieSet Artwork from Fanart.Tv
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Movie set Tab, Fixed logic when checking for TMDB Id.
  • Movie - Movie Sets ID Check should not overwrite custom Set names.
  • Movie - Rebuild nfo's checks Actor's path is valid if using Local actor folder.
  • Movie - MovieSet, Save Poster as poster.jpg, not as folder.jpg.
  • Movie - MovieSets, Clean illegal characters from Movie Set Name

New in Media Companion 3.619 Beta (May 13, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Tv - Fixed Tv Browser Tab gui layout

New in Media Companion 3.618 Beta (May 12, 2015)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added Movie Set ID Check under Tool-bar Movies.
  • MC - Added H265/HEVC overlay icon.
  • Movies: Added new Folder Size filter. You need to click the Refresh button to get this filter working for the first time.
  • Movies: Added new Runtime filter.
  • Movies: Added new Default language filter.
  • Movie Sets - Auto Download Set artwork to selected location.
  • Movie Sets - If Set artwork is present, display "Set Poster" &/or "Set Fanart" in Extra Artwork panel.
  • Movie Sets - Fanart & Poster Tabs updated to allow display of MovieSet Fanart or Posters
  • Movie Sets - Added to Batch Rescrape Wizard and to Rescrape Specific.
  • Movie Sets - Altered Movie Set Tab. Displays Set name, if TMDB Id, and if Fanart or Poster is present. Double click the tick of fanart or poster to display artwork.
  • Movies: Add language to fanart overlay.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Added 'DVD' to Video Source list.
  • Movie - Fixed showing Duplicates to exclude movies with no IMDB ID.
  • Movie - Added CreateDate to TableView Columns.
  • Movie - Fixed TMDB scraping with filename containing underscore character.
  • Movie - context-menu download poster updates missing poster count.
  • TV - Fixed saving show Sort Title to tvshow.nfo.
  • mc_com.exe - Fixed moviesetcache code for mc_com.exe.
  • Movies : Updated the DefaultCertificateMappings.xml file. To pick up the new mappings, delete your CertificateMappings.xml file. A new one will be automatically created from the DefaultCertificateMappings.xml when MC is restarted.
  • Media Tags - Added missing language codes
  • Movies: Bug fix - On datagridview mouse double-clicked, only play movie if actually over one.
  • Movies: Bug fix - Languages filter was doing an AND join when it should have been doing an OR to retrieve movies in any of the selected languages (in multi-select mode).
  • Movie - Tags Tab. Improved adding/Removing tags from Movie(s). Now can add or remove specific tags from Multiple selected movies, without overwriting their existing tags.
  • Movie - Extra Artwork preview. Improved scaling of picturebox depending on image and size of Media Companion

New in Media Companion 3.617 Beta (Apr 4, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fix duplicates if no IMDB ID, ie: Movie only on TMDB.
  • Movie - Fix Movie Set if contains a Comma.
  • Movie - Changed Multi-Thread code for rebuilding actor and director databases.
  • Movie - Fixed Export crash due to moviesetcache code.
  • TV - Fixed scraping episode actor's from IMDB.
  • TV - Fixed scraping multi-episodes with XBMC TVDB scraper.

New in Media Companion 3.616 Beta (Mar 30, 2015)

  • New:
  • Movie - New Filter for Subtitle Language.
  • TV - Added Filter by Watched/UnWatched.
  • mc_com - Add -ex switch for scan and download missing episode thumbnails.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Disable Episode rename if 'List All' filter is not selected.
  • TV - correctly handle XBMC TVDB scraper language
  • TV - Screenshot Tab delay set to AutoScreenshot delay when MC starts.
  • TV - If change Screenshot tab delay, Pressing 'Enter' key will get Screenshot.
  • TV - Delete TV Root folder(s), Tv Shows(s) from Tv Folder tab with 'Delete' key.
  • TV - Removed message boxes from context menu 'Rescrape Missing Episode Thumbs'
  • MC - Fixed default Fanart resolution after addition of new image size
  • Movie - Set Minimum year to 1850
  • Movies - Using TMDB scraper, obey studio limit.
  • Movie - Store XBMC TMDB scraper settings in config.xml
  • Movie - Improve browsing movies, changing tabs with Include Missing Videos option selected.
  • Movie - Improve Refresh performance when Use Multi-Thread is enabled, and user has multiple movie sources.
  • Movie - Fix Manual Movie rename, was failing for subtitle files.
  • Movie - Delete Movie root folder(s) with 'Delete' key.
  • Movie - Display by Filename or FolderName Sorts correctly by A - Z.

New in Media Companion 3.615 Beta (Feb 27, 2015)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added button to select what Fanart.Tv Artwork is Auto-downloaded when scraping movie(s)
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed Directorcache crash from occurring.
  • Movie - Added 1280 to poster height saving.
  • Movie - Added option to use Underscore or Full-stop when renaming movies and replacing spaces.
  • Movie - Director, Country & Studio saved in nfo as separate entries if multiple data.
  • Movie - Table View improvement in Speed. Also rebuilds movie Sets data before displaying Table.
  • Movie - Allow loading of MCM nfo's where id has Attribute for source.
  • Movie - Fix MC message of TMDB unavailable.
  • General - Save m3u in correct Windows 1252 Encoding.
  • TV - Episode Title with Diphthong in place of Apostrophe, had following character in Upper-Case

New in Media Companion 3.614 Beta (Feb 11, 2015)

  • New:
  • TV - added search and download for missing episode thumbs on context menu
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix display of Fanart.Tv Season banner
  • TV - Fix counter for TV Batch Rescraping
  • TV - Fixed option not sticking for download xtrafanart
  • TV - Exclude x265 from filename when searching for episode number.
  • Movie - Allow Drag'n'Drop of movie root folder to Movie Folder tab
  • Movie - Fixed folder renaming if Root folder is root of Drive. ie: I:\
  • MC - Fixed clearing of Excluded folder list, when switching profiles.

New in Media Companion 3.612 Beta (Dec 22, 2014)

  • New:
  • Allow Drop Tv Show(s) onto TvTreeview, and onto Separate List of Shows. Note: Doesn't support Tv Root Folders.
  • TV - Option to save screenshots in native TVDB sizing. 16:9 = 400x225, 4:3 = 400x300.
  • Fixed:
  • Fanart.Tv - Cleanly catch when Fanart.Tv is offline.
  • TV - Fixed possible save of Poster as Banner and vis-versa.
  • TV - Refresh Missing Episodes now rewrites the missing ep's nfo's to update all data.
  • TV - Improved scan log displayed.
  • TV - Removed from show outline during scrape.
  • TV - Fixed scraping via XBMC TVDB scraper, was not populating Stream details.
  • TV - Fixed Absolute Order and XBMC TVDB may not store Season and Episode numbers in episode's nfo.
  • Movie - Fixed 'Change Movie' through TMDB again.

New in Media Companion 3.611 Beta (Dec 15, 2014)

  • New:
  • Both : Show extra audio tracks on fanart image. Non-default tracks are greyed out. Can be disabled from General Preferences.
  • TV - Add rescrape Episode Title to Batch Rescrape Wizard.
  • TV - From Tv Show menu, Check for Duplicates.
  • Movie - Select a Plot. On Movie Edi (Alternative) user's can now select a different plot from a list of plots from IMDB and TMDB.
  • Movie - rescrape from info label, ie. right-click Premiered label and select 'Rescrape Premiered', or Genre Label, Stars, Actors etc.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Remove Decimal Point from Votes scraped from IMDB.
  • Movie - Alt poster browser, fixed getting posters from IMDB and MPDB.
  • Movie - Added 'DVD and 'Bluray' to Separate Movie Identifier list. Users need to click 'Reset List' to repopulate if upgrading from earlier build.
  • Movie - Fix change movie from TMDB.

New in Media Companion 3.610 Beta (Dec 5, 2014)

  • New:
  • Movie - Add %M - Mpaa Cert for file and folder renaming
  • Movie - Add XBMC TMDB Preferred Country Certificate. Fallback to TMDB Primary Certificate.
  • Movie - Add option to save comma as thousand, million separator.
  • TV - Add option to scrape artwork first from Fanar.Tv then any missing from TvDb
  • Movies - Added -d command line argument to mc_com. Shows trailer download progress percentage complete to console. Ignored if -v (no console window) specified.
  • Movie - Set quantity of ExtraFanart images.
  • Movie - ExtraFanart now scraped with Movie (if selected)
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fix seasons showing watched if episodes have empty field.
  • Tv - Improved Open Folder function if season is selected. ie: Opens season folder showing content.
  • Tv - Reworked Batch Rescrape Wizard, to improve performance.
  • TV - Fix nfo if playcount is nothing.
  • TV - Fix saving of edited Special episodes
  • Movie - Catch exception of Votes empty.
  • Movie - Try resolve Votes filter if full-stop as thousands deliminator.
  • Movie - Added Separate Movie list Reset button.
  • Movie - Added DVD and Bluray to Separate List.
  • Movie - Fixed Scraping Movie if filename has multiple extensions. ie: ghost.mkv-group.mkv.
  • Movie - Alt Editor Blank nfo error fixed.
  • Movie - Alter ExtraFanart file naming to conform to Artwork Downloader naming.
  • Movie - Removed saving of custom or selected fanart as ExtraFanart.
  • Movie - Increase ExtraThumb to Max of 5 Images.

New in Media Companion 3.609 Beta (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - Poster Tab wasn't allowing to save any posters. Fixed.
  • TV - Fixed issue displaying episode actors in a multi-episode nfo.
  • TV - Fixed exception trying to load missing poster into preview picturebox on Poster Tab.
  • TV - Tv show selector Tab, description change for overwrite existing artwork
  • TV - Fixed single show 'Use Rescraper Wizard', only run over single show and it's episodes.
  • TV - if present, re-save to nfo when saving multi-episode nfo's.
  • TV - Poster Tab, fix issue if no posters present, 'Displaying 0 of 0' not always visible till switch to season that does contain posters.
  • Movie - Thousand's separator for Votes field.
  • Movie - Fixed Multi-part simple nfo structure being ignored in MC

New in Media Companion 3.608 Beta (Nov 15, 2014)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added to XBMC TMDB preferences options to get Top250 and Votes from IMDB.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Massaged XBMC TMDB scraper to get all writers, all studio's and all country's.
  • Movie - Fixed issue when XBMC TMDB scraping only one director.
  • Movie - Updated IMDB scraping to get all country's
  • TV - Fixed 'Rescrape episode image' was deleting image immediately after saving it. Doh!
  • TV - Catch error if user opens TMDB/IMDB tab, with unsuccessfully scraped show.
  • TV - New Locked and Watched icon.
  • TV - Import epbookmark if in episode nfo exported from XBMC/Kodi
  • TV - Ignore missing episodes when selecting 'Missing screenshots'

New in Media Companion 3.607 Beta (Nov 11, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - Empty shows no longer shown as watched.
  • TV - Removed 'Edit' symbol as misleading.
  • TV - Exclude missing episodes from being marked as watched.
  • Movie - Fixed displaying of and finding of Basic Saved movie nfo's.
  • Movie - Improved 'Rebuild movie nfo files' option.
  • Movie - Ignore any RAR file below 8MB. Probably a subtitle file, not a movie.
  • Movie - Fixed issue when changing multiple movie's sets to -none-.

New in Media Companion 3.606 Beta (Nov 11, 2014)

  • New:
  • TV - Added Watched indicator to TV Tree. If episode set as watched, has green tick. If complete season watched, season has green tick. If complete show watched, Show has green tick.
  • TV - Added to Episode nfo's. This allows users on XBMC to better use Trakt as well as better management of missing episodes.
  • Movie - New option to always rename Movie folder into Root Movie folder, if not allocated to a Set.
  • MC - Updated master Genre list to include TVDB Genre's
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Correctly load XBMC exported tvshow.nfo and episode nfo's, including multi-episode nfo's.
  • TV - correct error introduced when filtering out missing episodes on Refresh.
  • TV - Fixed issue of missing episodes still in cache after Show's removal.
  • TV - added last refresh date to menu option Refresh Missing Episodes as a mouse over tooltip.
  • TV - Re-Added loading of episode actors.
  • TV - Fixed multi-episode nfo loading when adding a Show already scraped, to Media Companion.
  • TV - Edited XBMC TVDB scraper to get return episode and
  • Movie - Fixed Quotes in movie title appearing as "
  • MC - Disabled adding MC to Event Manager as this opens a UAC warning when running MC.
  • MC - Fixed issue getting aspect ratio not returning correct value.
  • MC - Fix codec info for MOV/MP4V streams.
  • mc_com - Updated Episode scraping to populate . Updated Cache load and save for new values.

New in Media Companion 3.605 Beta (Nov 11, 2014)

  • New:
  • Movie Template - Mobile Movie, by KevboTheOne. Added to Export Templates. See Workitem 1236
  • Movie - Added Delete extra artwork to browser window and Fanart.Tv Tab. Fanart.Tv select display of existing artwork, right click.
  • TV - Added Delete extra artwork to browser window and Fanart.Tv Tab. Fanart.Tv select display of existing artwork, right click. Browser, right click the image you wish to delete.
  • TV - finished context menu's 'Select from Poster' and 'Select from Banner'
  • TV - Return of Episode actor's listed and displayed.
  • TV - 'Check List for Removed folder' now also confirms each Tv Show's folder has a tvshow.nfo.
  • TV - New option to delete an episode's nfo and artwork. By single episode, by season or by show.
  • TV - New option to delete tvshow's nfo and artwork.
  • mc_com.exe - Exporting of movies info now uses user's profile for sort order, including preferences for ignore articles
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed & in movie title and sort title.
  • Movie - removed Yahoo as a search engine, replaced with ask.com.
  • Movie - fixed Overwriting images when using Batch Rescrape Wizard
  • TV - Fixed image retrieval by preferred language. Fall-back to English then to no allotted language image.
  • TV - improve status bar by including more information as to what MC is actually doing while scraping TV Shows.
  • TV - Fixed overwriting of images & corrected option to download from Fanart.Tv when Batch Rescraping.
  • TV - Some missing episode issues have been resolved.
  • MC - Fix issue if genre.txt file not present in setting folder, and not already allocated to default profile.

New in Media Companion 3.604 Beta (Oct 6, 2014)

  • New:
  • TV - Fanart.TV Tab added for Tv Shows.
  • TV - Auto-scrape, Batch Wizard support for Fanart.Tv. Artwork indicator added to Tv Browser tab.
  • MC - MultiMonitor is disabled by default. Option in General Preferences to enable/disable.
  • Movie - Added "Blueray" and "DVD" to source List..
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Episode information was expanded out the right side of Media Companion. Fixed.
  • Home Movies - issue saving nfo caused MC to error and close.
  • Movie - Include extra artwork when deleting nfo and artwork.
  • Movie - Fixed missing fanart and posters where DVD structure is concerned.
  • Media Companion - By disabling Multi-Monitor, gotten past an issue occurring with regards to detecting current monitor.

New in Media Companion 3.603 Beta (Oct 4, 2014)

  • New:
  • General - Default artwork selection changed to Frodo and onwards for new installs.
  • Movie - Fully integrated Fanart.Tv artwork into Auto-Scraping, Batch Rescrape and new Fanart.Tv Tab
  • Movie - Added option scraping from IMDB, to select the Primary Plot, not the biggest plot.
  • Movie - Added list of Genre's to Movie browser. Right-click the Genre field to open selectable Genre's. Allows for Custom Genre's by adding a text file called genres.txt to the Settings folder. Refresh Genre List from Tools heading.
  • Movie - Added option to Configure Movie Filters, Check/UnCheck All filters.
  • Movie - Scrape artwork (ClearArt) from Fanart.Tv. Auto-Scrape, Batch ReScrape, and Fanart.Tv Tab. Movies must be in individual folders.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Fixed if episode extension has any capital letters, rename of files would fail.
  • TV - Fixed Ignore Articles for TV Show Titles.
  • TV - Fix illegal character | in episode title.
  • TV - Fixed Refresh All checking for missing tag in episode nfo's.
  • Movie - Fixed Fanart Tab missing Next button was not selecting next movie missing fanart.
  • Movie - Fixed TMDB Keywords to Tags causing crash.
  • Movie - Fixed IMDB Keywords to tags.
  • Media Companion - Fix issue writing/creating Windows Event Log Entries. (Inaccessible Logs error)

New in Media Companion 3.601 Beta (Sep 18, 2014)

  • New:
  • General - Options to disable Rating or Media Stream details being overlay onto Movie Fanart or Episode Thumbnails.
  • General - New option under Tools to Clear Cache folder.
  • Movies - Added : Set Watched & Clear Watched to movie list context menu.
  • Movie - Select IMDB tab, now gives option to browse to TMDB or IMDB Dependent on which ID's are present for selected movie.
  • Movie - Batch Re-scrape Wizard. Added option to re-scrape data from TMDB.
  • Movie - Added rescrape 'Keywords into Tags' to Rescrape context menu.
  • Movie - Wall context menu allow play trailer if present.
  • Fixed:
  • Both - Last chance set aspect ratio by Width Height if not able to retrieve from Stream.
  • Both - Instigated 100 max recent files in cache folder. Runs on start and close of Media Companion.
  • TV - Batch Re-scrape Rewrite nfo's rewrites episode nfo's.
  • TV - Batch Re-scrape overwrites data in cache folder.
  • TV - Fixed annoyance when Refreshing All and Show(s) folders were removed, MC would run Cache Refresh a second time.
  • Both - Fix filtering of Sources in filename.
  • Movie - Fixed context menu 'Download poster from MPDB'
  • Movie - Fixed getting posters from MPDB via Poster tab.
  • Both - Updated mediainfo.dll.

New in Media Companion 3.600 Beta (Aug 27, 2014)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added option to exclude prefix of "Rated" to MPAA Certificate.
  • General - Added option to select nfo viewer-editor of users choice.
  • Fixed:
  • Fix some settings not acting as should. ie: disabling logs
  • Fixed Movie filter's not displaying if starting on Movie tab.
  • Fixed scrolling Tv list, focus was always diverted to actor's.

New in Media Companion 3.599 Beta (Aug 25, 2014)

  • New:
  • MC - Remember last monitor Media Companion Ran on, and re-open there if available.
  • MC - If notepad++ installed, use for opening nfo XML files.
  • Movie - Fix: Fanart & Poster searching using 'Google Search' button opened multiple browser tabs, one per search word.
  • Movie - Allow Re-scrape with XBMC TMDB Scraper, if IMDB Id is present.
  • TV - added option to save Season Poster into season folder as folder.jpg
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Table view error if a row header was selected.
  • Movie - Table-view - added certificates column.
  • Movie - Table-view - fixed context options Watched and Unwatched.
  • Movie - Updated DefaultCertificateMappings.xml - Delete your existing CertificateMappings.xml to pick up the changes.
  • Movie - Language filter bug fix
  • Movie - Bug Fix saving posters and fanart.
  • Movie - Alternative Movie Edit Improvements
  • Movie - Stop Media Info from Iso's stealing focus. Fix Iso Width & Height & audio Codec.
  • Movie - Fix trailer scraping if no IMDB or TMDB Id.
  • Movie - Fix movie tool-strip no displaying selected movie's Title.
  • Movie - Fix Re-scrape using XBMC TMDB scraper.
  • Movie - Fix get fanart Oops error if TMDB not available.
  • Movie - escape brackets in custom clean filename entries.
  • TV - Scrolling browser list and scrolling actors/roles fixed.
  • TV - Fix issue for Missing Episodes if show not available on TVDB.
  • mc_com - Improve episode artwork code.

New in Media Companion 3.598 Beta (Jun 27, 2014)

  • New:
  • Movie - Add function to jump to first movie of letter pressed on keyboard. Must select once a movie in list to allow function.
  • Movie - Option to save actor images from TMDB when scraping movie from IMDB.
  • Movie - Added Option to move ignore article to end for Rename using Sort Title.
  • Movie - Remember last position of Filter window.
  • Movie - Added Missing IMDBID, Missing Source & Missing Director to General Filter list.
  • Movie - Download trailer added to Batch Wizard and Context menu.
  • Movie - New Video Codec Filter.
  • Movie - Movie Table View reworked.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Catch attempting to edit episode in MC that has had the video file removed
  • TV - Fixed XBMC TVDB Show scraping not setting the TVDB ID.
  • TV - Improve Horizontal Split position above Banner. Now stores user's last position on exit.
  • TV - fixed actor display if directly selecting an episode before selecting the show.
  • TV - save more info into tvcache.xml to improve mc_com.exe performance. Requires only a 'Refresh All'.
  • TV - If not actor's for a Show, Clear Actor and Role boxes.
  • TV - Reworked TV Show scraping, Show Rescraping and Tv Show selector scraping.
  • TV - Improved performance when adding a new show, or rescraping a show.
  • Both - If video file is an iso, catch in place if iso can not be scanned for media info.
  • Both - If resizing MC, correct fanart overlay of media info image sizes.
  • Movie - Corrected save fanart.jpg option for movies in folders when scraping or changing fanart.
  • Movie - Batch Rescrape if artwork exists, use for missing artwork if Do Not Overwrite selected.
  • Movie - Fixed Filter window remembering position, and activating scrollbars.
  • Movie - Fixed scraping of movies via TMDB with no IMDB ID.
  • Movie - Rescrape actors from TMDB or IMDB fixed.
  • Movie - set Minimum Year to 1900 for Year Filter.
  • Movie - fixed getting IMDB Ratings when using XBMC TMDB scraper.
  • Movie - With download extra art selected, ExtraFanart and/or ExtraThumb folder will be created even if no images available.
  • mc_com - Honor locked show

New in Media Companion 3.597 Beta (Jun 13, 2014)

  • Couple of new Features:
  • Movie - Allow save Title and Sort Title in Title Case format.
  • Movie - Allow save fanart.jpg if movie in folder.
  • TV - display episode source. Get episode source from episode filename.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Added Fill Tags from plot keywords to Batch Rescraper.
  • Movie - Fixed TMDB scraping of Media Stub files.
  • Movie - fixed movie actor source selection.
  • Movie - fix Movie details filter (actor,director & sets)
  • Movie - added cancel to scraping trailer url.
  • Movie - can not scrape all available keywords into fields.
  • Movie - improve getting year from movie filename - big improvement for tmdb scraping
  • Movie - Fix Drop of files not all being video files.
  • Movie - Trailer url for youtube link converted to plugin://plugin... format. make compatible with XBMC.
  • Movie - Removal of escape characters from plot and outline if scraped from TMDB.
  • Movie - If TMDB is down, scraping halted for both IMDB and TMDB. Fixed.
  • TV - Banner Split fixed.
  • Both - Codec info fixed for DivX media. DTS-ES now lists as DTS as recogised in XBMC.
  • Both - Fix Ignore A option not saving/loading.

New in Media Companion 3.596 Beta (May 8, 2014)

  • Couple of new Features:
  • TV - Option to ignore missing specials.
  • TV - changed missing future episodes to highlight in Red.
  • Movie - Rename file name with ignored articles at end.
  • Movie - add option to disregard Original Title, and Alt Titles from nfo.
  • Movie - Reworked TMDB into same routines as MC's IMDB scraper. This will make it easier to add extra scrapers in the future.
  • Movie - Option in Batch rescraper to populate only empty fields.
  • Movie - Option to fill field from Plot Keywords available from IMDB/TMDB.
  • Both - New Media Companion command line option 'r' added to refresh movies & TV caches. (Not for mc_com.exe)
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Save local actor as actor name in folder of first name's first letter. ie: /b/brad_pitt.jpg.
  • Movie - Filter new movies title during scrape for entries already in Source list, add to Source tag automatically.
  • Movie - Added 3DSBS and 3DTAB to separate movie identifier as these need to remain in the filename for XBMC to ID 3D movies correctly.
  • Movie - Warning added if changing movie to delete offline movie instead of changing movie.
  • Movie - Fixed folder renaming with movie set name and ignore article selected or de-selected
  • Movie - fix if using XBMC TMDb, save extrafanart
  • Movie - Fix renaming Folder and moving movie into folder, if duplicate movie, ie: Movie exists in folder already.
  • Movie - Abort File or Folder renaming if movie not identified, ie: Scrape Error.
  • TV - allow saving of local actor image using either TVDb or IMDB actor to local directory.
  • TV - Reworked Missing episode data.
  • TV - added refresh Missing episode data.
  • Mediainfo fixed for XVid files.
  • filter correctly for scene nfo files.

New in Media Companion 3.595 Beta (Feb 15, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Movie - Added 'Delete Nfo and Artwork' to context menu
  • Movie - Added 'Director' Filter.
  • TV - TV Show Sort Title. Now can group common shows in your library.
  • Fixed:
  • Both - Convert nfo to UTF-8 if Ansi coded.
  • Media Stubs - Re-enabled folder renaming.
  • Media Stubs - Fix if browser list empty, wasn't allowed to access Media Stubs tab.
  • Export - Extra tags added to export function. See
  • Movie - Finally fixed adding to separate movie identifier list.
  • Movie - Fixed Movie-Filter list disappearing.
  • Movie - don't hide bad nfo's
  • TV - Fix where Rescrape media info would add to number of audio tracks, instead of re-writing audio tracks.
  • Layout issues fixed.

New in Media Companion 3.594 Beta (Feb 1, 2014)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added Media Stub file support. Note: these files are not renamed, either file or folder.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Title not showing on context menu.
  • Movie - Browse for poster wasn't saving correctly for DVD structure.
  • Movie - Improve IMDB Search results, catching 'No Results' cleanly.
  • Movie - TMDB Scrapid, removed backslash from plot and outline.
  • TV - episode scene nfo's ignored on cache refresh.
  • TV - If multi-episode rescrape or create screenshot, display media-info correctly.
  • TV - Fixed displaying/Selecting of Actor(s)/Role(s). Fixed memory leak caused by actors code.
  • Added 'Paste Path' button to "Browse or URL" forms.

New in Media Companion 3.593 Beta (Jan 6, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Tv - Fixed error if actor role is missing. Actor's name put in place of actor's role, only for MC, not saved into the nfo.
  • TV - Option to save Show's poster also as folder.jpg if Frodo only artwork selected.
  • TV - Cleaned actor names of leading spaces.
  • Both - Added missing mpeg2video resource.
  • Movie - Renaming accepts multiple subtitle files, and fixed multi-part subtitle files.
  • Movie - Saving of Rating in correct format for XBMC, no matter region settings.

New in Media Companion 3.592 Beta (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed adding separate movie identifier to list.
  • Movie - Images not updating if Frodo only.
  • Movie - subtitle files not being renamed during scrape.
  • Movie - Multi-part movies, some parts not moved to new folder during scrape or manual rename.
  • Tv - now can search actors by name or role.
  • Tv - Fixed loading of TvShow.nfo not forming tag correctly.
  • Tv - Batch Wizzard rewrite nfo's to fix tag.
  • Tv - Refresh All will fix episode nfo's if nfo is missing tvdbid.

New in Media Companion 3.591 Beta (Dec 16, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Tv - Added episode extension to TvCache to counter removal of file check that sped up TvCache loading.
  • mc_com - Added episode extension to TvCache saving.
  • mccom - Fixed mccom not saving aired date to TvCache.

New in Media Companion 3.590 Beta (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed renaming fail if space at beginning or end of new rename string.
  • Movie - Fixed saving of images from local path.
  • Movie - Fixed logic not to overwrite artwork.
  • Movie - Fixed scraping votes uses a decimal point.
  • Tv - Tweaked TvCache loading time.
  • mc_com - Added tvCache cleaning routine.
  • mc_com - Major fix for multi-episodes not saving nfo correctly.

New in Media Companion 3.589 Beta (Nov 28, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - Filter by Tag
  • Movie - General Filter allows filter by Scrape Error.
  • Movie - Allow alternate versions of a movie, with list of 3D, Directors-Cut, Extended-Edition. IMDB or TMDB scraping.
  • Movie - If XBMC TMDb as scraper, option to scrape missing data from IMDB. Gets Certificate, Stars and Plot.
  • Movie - added Rename folder option %G - Genre.
  • Movie - Button added to Fanart & Poster tab, to open Google Image search in external Browser. Copy Url and paste back into Media Companion.
  • Both - Depending on selected tab, Movie or TV, F3 - Search for New, F5 - Refresh All. 'ESC' key can now close many open forms, including Log form.
  • Fixes:
  • Movie - Catch trailer url error
  • Movie - Fixed local path actors, again.
  • Movie - Added Bing and Yahoo to search for correct IMDB ID. This should improve the volume of movies scraped, before we hit google's limit.
  • Movie - Fixed renaming function if using XBMC TMDB scraper.
  • Both - Tweaked calcuation between 720P & 1080 icon display.

New in Media Companion 3.588 Beta (Nov 19, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - padding of existing episodes to match new scraped episodes.
  • TV - Re-scrape episode was using cached file not re-downloading episode.
  • Movie - Rename support for multi-part subtitle files.
  • Movie - fixed possible blank nfo if actor URL or path was invalid.
  • Movie - Fixed 'scraper error' on Votes.
  • Movie - re-enabled max google hits before switching to IMDB to search title.

New in Media Companion 3.587 Beta (Nov 11, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • TV - Locked shows display correctly after refresh
  • TV - missing episodes display in correct colour for missed or to be aired
  • TV - Rescrape of Multi-episodes working.
  • TV - Cache fix where was writing episodes multiple times
  • TV - Fixed Cache writing missing episodes when Display missing eps was disabled.

New in Media Companion 3.586 Beta (Nov 9, 2013)

  • Tv - Multi-episodes restored to MC
  • New:
  • Movie - Posters. Allow Drag and Drop of different poster, onto Poster Tab - Current Poster image.
  • Movie - Posters. New button - Paste from Clipboard, to paste local image as new poster.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed playing of BD media from MC
  • Movie - Increased quantity of extensions for -trailer files.
  • Fanart or Poster - tweaked browse or URL function.
  • Movie - if MC imports nfo that was exported by XBMC, MC keeps the tag data.
  • Movie - Use Foldername was getting year from Filename, not Folder Title.
  • Movie - Fixed saving of Tags and Movie sets in Multi-save mode.
  • Movie - Returned 'Local Actor' saving to specific location.
  • Movie - poster paste/drag-drop improved.
  • TV - Multi-episodes returned to episode tree - Thanks you Billyad2000!!
  • Tv - Changes to tv cache write method in hopes to improve loading time.

New in Media Companion 3.585 Beta (Oct 26, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - Rename Folder using Movie Set, option to move ignored articles to end of Movie Set, only for folder renaming.
  • Fixed:
  • Media Companion - Fixed if using profiles, config files would blown up in size due to some settings duplicating.
  • Ignore Article of An was cutting of last character of movie title.
  • If Rescraping title, sort title changed depending on 'Move article to end of Sort Title' setting.
  • Movie - If changing Poster source order, list would become empty. Fixed.
  • Tv - Actor scraping, remove illegal characters from Actor Name and Actor Role.
  • Tv - Removed Illegal characters from Plot.
  • Movie - Scroll bar added to File Details tab.
  • Movie - Fixed new option not sticking.
  • Movie - IMDB scraping of Plot.

New in Media Companion 3.584 Beta (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • mc_com.exe - Fixed to using new profile entries.
  • Movie - fixed rename movie and folder if use foldername selected.
  • Movie - Alt Edit Movie, trailer url check if changed and confirm valid.
  • Movie - Fixed IMDB poster scraping
  • Movie - Fixed outline and Plot scraping, including removal of Hyperlink's.
  • Movie Poster refactoring, attempts to catch gdi+ errors

New in Media Companion 3.583 Beta (Oct 25, 2013)

  • New:
  • Both - Added 'An' as option to ignore in title
  • Movie - Renaming - added %Z - Sorttitle to Legend
  • Movie - Renaming - added %O - Audio Channels to Legend
  • Movie - Remove a poster source from priority list. Reset List back to defaults.
  • Made Media Companion truly portable application.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - browse for Poster Or Fanart, allows for jpg, tbn, png and bmp images
  • Movie - Alt Fanart Browser - Url or Browse window now fully visible.
  • Movie - Manual renaming checks if 'Use Folder Name' selected, prompts to confirm rename of movie file.
  • Tv - Corrected new image for missing episode fanart
  • Tv - Fixed Rescrape episode thumbnail
  • Added 'Esc' key to close some forms
  • Tv - updated missing artwork images to be more concise - Thanks to user akya.
  • Profiles - not able to remove a profile fixed.

New in Media Companion 3.582 Beta (Oct 25, 2013)

  • New:
  • Both - Added 'An' as option to ignore in title
  • Movie - Renaming - added %Z - Sorttitle to Legend
  • Movie - Renaming - added %O - Audio Channels to Legend
  • Movie - Remove a poster source from priority list. Reset List back to defaults.
  • Made Media Companion truly portable application.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - browse for Poster Or Fanart, allows for jpg, tbn, png and bmp images
  • Movie - Alt Fanart Browser - Url or Browse window now fully visible.
  • Movie - Manual renaming checks if 'Use Folder Name' selected, prompts to confirm rename of movie file.
  • Tv - Corrected new image for missing episode fanart
  • Tv - Fixed Rescrape episode thumbnail
  • Added 'Esc' key to close some forms
  • Tv - updated missing artwork images to be more concise - Thanks to user akya.
  • Profiles - not able to remove a profile fixed.

New in Media Companion 3.581 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - General Preferences, allow saving of ignored 'The' or 'A' to end of movie title, stored in sorttitle field.
  • Movie - New Way for Cropping Posters.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Rename of folders/filename. caught error message.
  • Movie - Fixed Bug in Save Cropped image, only saving in Pre-Frodo format if Both model selected.
  • Movie - Fixed Cropped image didn't take zoomed ratio into effect.
  • Movie - Separated Folder Renaming and File Renaming fuctions during initial scrape.
  • TV - Fixed TVDB xml return issue.
  • Both - Actors from IMDB, Fixed extra entries in nfo files and strange characters

New in Media Companion 3.580 Beta (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Fixed IMDB Actor names and Actor Roles, empty entries in movie nfo, and actor scraping during initial movie scrape.

New in Media Companion 3.579 Beta (Oct 7, 2013)

  • New:
  • TV - context menu for rescrapeing Poster image/Banner image
  • Fixed:
  • Both - Fixed actor scraping from IMDB
  • Movie - Fixed Tableview if Movie's movieset was not in MC's list of moviesets
  • Movie - Rename with mediainfo now lowercase.
  • Both - added ignore "A " in titles. Separate option in General Preferences.
  • Tv - Changing Banners now shows all available banners, no longer paged.
  • Tv - Changing banners now scrollable by mouse wheel.

New in Media Companion 3.578 Beta (Sep 26, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - context menu changed for Renaming movies. Options: movie & folder, movie only, folder only.
  • Movie - Added Rename folder to Batch rescrape wizard.
  • Movie - Added Blu-Ray movies structure support.
  • Movie - Added blu-ray mediainfo support.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie folder renaming - if 'use folder name for scraping' selected, folder can be renamed, but movie will not be.
  • Movie - Batch rescrape wizard - supports multimode, rescraping only selected movies.
  • Movie - Tableview, Completed missingdata syntax messages.
  • Movie - If no id tag or id tag is blank in movies nfo, batch rescraping would crash. Fixed.
  • Movie - re-enabled Sets in Tableview.
  • Movie - Clean illegal characters from Actor's Name.
  • Movie - Fixed missing actors filter, if actor doesn't have an image on IMDB.
  • TV - Tableview columns adjustable, but not stored.
  • TV - Banner window height now stored in config.
  • mc_com.exe - console writes output as it happens.

New in Media Companion 3.577 Beta (Sep 18, 2013)

  • New:
  • Tv - Use Rescrape Wizard on selected Show.
  • Movie - Added three rename patterns: %R - Video Resolution, %C - Video Codec & %A - Audio codec and Channels.
  • Movie - Renaming Movie and Folder functionality added.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - sped up movie browsing by removing a Trailer URL check. Secondary checks in place already.
  • Movie - "Tag" box in browser window accumulated "tags".
  • TV - Batch Rescrape didn't clear existing audio details before adding new details.

New in Media Companion 3.576 Beta (Aug 23, 2013)

  • New:
  • Added ".ass" & ".ssa" as valid subtitle extensions
  • TV - Added Rescrape Media Info to context menu. Runs over a complete Show, Complete Season or per episode
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Fixed Fanart tab not refreshing current fanart image after saving new image.
  • Movie - createdate kept when Rescrape All selected
  • Tv - Changing a Show that was incorrectly identified, now correctly gets all artwork and actors
  • Tv - Scrape Episodes if in DVD file/folder format
  • Both - Exclude folder now excludes subfolders
  • Both - Fixed ExtraThumbs not saving to correct folder for XBMC
  • Both - Fixed if both ExtraThumbs and ExtraFanart selected, MC error's as file in use

New in Media Companion 3.575 Beta (Aug 5, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movies Filters - Performance tweak - If a filter is unselected then bypass any data gathering for that filter
  • XBMC Link - Added 'Enable Link' check-box. Disable to prevent checking for XBMC PC.
  • Fixed:
  • Exclude ExtraFanart and ExtraThumbs folders from scan.
  • Movie - Fixed alternative titles not scraping from IMDB
  • Movie - Fanart tab, URL browser not popping up.

New in Media Companion 3.574 Beta (Jul 28, 2013)

  • New:
  • Added some adhoc extra General movie filters, one of which is Plot = Outline (see fixes above). To see the filters, add the following line to your config.xml: True. The others are: Imdb in folder name, Imdb in not folder name & Imdb not in folder name & year mismatch.
  • Movie - display list on browser tab
  • Fixes:
  • mc_com - Corrected ErrorLevel Output. Disabled writing any cache files, if no media found.
  • Plot scraped as Outline
  • Download Trailer button no longer rescrapes the Trailer URL if it's present, unless URL has expired.
  • Movie - saving as movie.nfo now populates the browser tab correctly.

New in Media Companion 3.573 Beta (Jul 28, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - XBMC Link - When enabled, changes made in MC will update XBMC Documentation
  • Movie - Context menu on list - Added option to convert to Frodo Only from Pre-Frodo & Both. By renaming the .tbn to -poster.jpg or deleting the .tbn if both exist.
  • Movie - if Selecting a movie, and video file is missing, option to remove from MC list.
  • Movie - Option to Highlight titles with missing video files. Option in Movie Pref>General tab.
  • Movie - New General filters to filter by Pre-Frodo, Frodo or Both based on existing movie meta data
  • TV - Merged IMDB & TVDB web browsing tabs
  • TV - Table view for Show information -Rudimentary, Still Work-In-Progress.
  • Media Companion.exe - Command line arguments added. sq, st or sm. Documentation
  • mc_com.exe - output ErrorLevel codes dependent on if Movie/episodes scraped. See Documentation
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Edit Movie (Alternative) - Change Movie notifies to use Main MC 'Change Movie'
  • Movie - Alt Editor also edits Create Date.
  • Movie - Scraped Outline trailing >> removed
  • Movie - Bug in Fanart tab, throwing an out of range index error
  • Movie - Was deleting existing trailer when rescraping

New in Media Companion 3.572 Beta (Jul 16, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - XBMC Link - When enabled, changes made in MC will update XBMC Documentation
  • Movie - Context menu on list - Added option to convert to Frodo Only from Pre-Frodo & Both. By renaming the .tbn to -poster.jpg or deleting the .tbn if both exist.
  • Movie - if Selecting a movie, and video file is missing, option to remove from MC list.
  • Movie - Option to Highlight titles with missing video files. Option in Movie Pref>General tab.
  • Movie - New General filters to filter by Pre-Frodo, Frodo or Both based on existing movie meta data
  • TV - Merged IMDB & TVDB web browsing tabs
  • TV - Table view for Show information -Rudimentary, Still Work-In-Progress.
  • Media Companion.exe - Command line arguments added. sq, st or sm. Documentation
  • mc_com.exe - output ErrorLevel codes dependent on if Movie/episodes scraped. See Documentation
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Edit Movie (Alternative) - Change Movie notifies to use Main MC 'Change Movie'
  • Movie - Alt Editor also edits Create Date.
  • Movie - Scraped Outline trailing >> removed
  • Movie - Bug in Fanart tab, throwing an out of range index error
  • Movie - Was deleting existing trailer when rescraping

New in Media Companion 3.571 Beta (Jul 4, 2013)

  • New:
  • Media Companion - Debug Tab - Once only option to empty cache folder on Exit. Option not permanent.
  • Movie - Top 250 visible on main movie Browser Tab.
  • mccom - new command '-v', console hidden, writes output to mccom.log.
  • Fixed:
  • Both - stream details - change language to 3-char not 2-char code. Per ISO 639-2. Issue
  • Movie - Fix Rebuild NFO causing runtime to = zero
  • Movie - If XBMC TMDB fails to find movie, create empty nfo so user can use 'Change Movie'
  • Movie - Catch issue if node in nfo not correctly populated.
  • Movie - Re-scrape all renames files, but doesn't remove originally named files.

New in Media Companion 3.570 Beta (Jun 17, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - using XBMC TMDB - now renames movies if option selected.
  • Movie - using Xbmc Tmdb - Actor images saved from TMDb if option selected.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Checks for poster.jpg against missing poster filter
  • Movie - Fixed continual scraping of vob movie file (not DVD structure)
  • Both - Correctly display audio channels
  • Both - Correctly populate audio info in nfo's if multiple audio tracks.
  • Both - added icons and checked for DTS ES and Dolby TrueHD audio tracks.
  • Both - Stream details correctly display mpeg2 overlay.
  • mc_com - Now uses common stream details routine.

New in Media Companion 3.569 Beta (Jun 4, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movies - Autoscrape/Batch Rescrape extra fanart and or extra thumbs.
  • Movies - Alternative editor can add manually actors.
  • TV - Batch Rescraper, AutoScrape extrafanart, if option enabled.
  • Fixed:
  • Movies - Slow performance switching to movie tab by adding option 'Disable "Not Matching Rename Pattern"' to Movie Preferences - General.
  • Movies - Fixed only actors with images were scraped and added to nfo
  • Movies - Fixed filter reset if selected tab was above Home Movies.
  • Updated Mediainfo dll to 0.7.63
  • TV - fixed switch between DVD and Default sort
  • TV - mouse wheel now scrolls actors
  • General - Fixed Custom Commands not adding removing cleanly
  • Tv - Removed extra message-box's from Display missing episodes.
  • Movies - Alt Fanart browser uses safe save and load routines.
  • Movies - Multi-save mode was incorrectly setting the 'Movie Set' field when not in a set. Caused application to crash when filters were next updated.
  • Movie - XBMC TMDB, changing language only took effect after restart of MC. Now instant.

New in Media Companion 3.568 Beta (May 27, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - Change Movie by TMDB or IMDB.
  • TV - Media icons overlay episode fanart
  • Home Movies - Media Icons overlay screenshot.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Endless loop if Re-scrape Specific - Trailer selected, but download trailer during scrape isn't checked.
  • Movie - Fixed quotes around Original titles
  • Movie - Fixed Rescrape Specific crash.
  • Movie - if cancel download of trailer, noted in log correctly cancelled by user.
  • Movie - Fixed non-displaying of audio icons.
  • Movie - Fixed extra quotes if Scrape Original Title selected.
  • mc_com - fixed some exceptions and fixed getting streamdetails.

New in Media Companion 3.567 Beta (May 25, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie filters - General - Drop-down list sizes to largest item
  • Movie filters - Drop-down combo-boxes now use application's font and shows over task bar.
  • Movie - Add resolution, sound, etc icons to details pane.
  • Movie - function added - Single and MultiMovie Supported.
  • Movie - Missing Local Actors Filter - Finds movies missing actors in the '.actors' folder.
  • Movie - Basic Movie CSV Template, output list of movie titles and year as CSV format.
  • Both - Exclude folders from scrape. Applicable to both movies & TV shows. Configurable in General Preferences.
  • Both - Option to only display locally saved actor images.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Trailer URL flaky, sometimes get a URL, sometimes nothing.
  • Movie - XBMC TMDB scraper, catch error if no movie title matches found.
  • Movie - Catch error if URL string is empty when attempting to download to cache.
  • Movie - Added Full Movie path and filename to log.
  • Movie - Google can block searches for IMDB Id if too many calls made. Re-instigated fallback to IMDB to get Id.
  • Movie - Change Movie now filters for Root folder as per exiting option in Movie Preferences.
  • Movie - Fixed many Exceptions that were not cleanly handled.
  • Movie - Cleanly handle url value correctly.
  • Both - Return of Log Full/Brief function.
  • TV - Altered how loading if poster/banner handled, to remove open file error.

New in Media Companion 3.566 Beta (May 13, 2013)

  • Fix : Movies bug - Thrown if 1 movie in collection

New in Media Companion 3.563 Beta (May 7, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Movie - fixed always renaming movie.
  • Movie - If movie manually deleted and Mc started, receive an error message.
  • New:
  • Movie - Added Filter for missing certificate.
  • Movie - Added Filter for certificates. To compliment this filter, there's a new file called 'CertificateMappings.xml' in the Classes folder that you can manually edit to customise the filter items. See file for usage info.
  • Movie filters : Reset filter by clicking on title.

New in Media Companion 3.562c Beta (May 3, 2013)

  • Urgent fix - Movies always renaming

New in Media Companion 3.562 Beta (May 1, 2013)

  • New:
  • TV - Saving of ExtraFanart.
  • Movie - Allow turn off root folder check
  • Movie - Genre filter changed for new Tri-state drop-down listbox. You can now include & exclude multiple genres. E.g. Include Action, exclude Animation, Horror. The intention is to change all the filters (where appropriate) to this new format
  • Movie - option to save as fanart.jpg or poster.jpg instead of moviename-poster, etc, if movie is in own folder. Note: If Pre-Frodo or Both is selected, moviename.tbn and moviename-fanart.jpg will still be saved for backwards compatibility.
  • Movie - Scraper tab options change around.
  • Fixed:
  • Don't overwrite artwork not sticking properly.
  • Movie - Moved options to correct tab's, better uniformity of options.
  • Movie - Set filtering does not work when the set contains a parenthesis - Issue
  • Movie - Filters sometimes saving all as False even though set to True, inc Issue 907
  • Movie - Number of audio tracks filter wasn't getting reset
  • Movie - filename starting with dot underscore are now not scraped.
  • Movie - movie.nfo was being ignored, so these movies were being rescraped.

New in Media Companion 3.561 Beta (Apr 19, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - Option to save as either extrathumbs or extrafanart or both.
  • Added ignoring of ds_store files
  • TV - Ignore any filename starting with "dot underscore" (no space between)
  • TV - Icon present if show is missing episodes and Display Missing Episodes is selected.
  • TV - Icon present on season if season is missing episodes.
  • Fixed:
  • Home Movies - Added Manual Path option.
  • Movie - Fixed save preferences for poster.jpg option.
  • Movie - if 'Download Trailer' selected, auto-select 'Save Trailer URL'.
  • Movie - Retain 'CreateDate' when rescraping.
  • Movie - Catch error if save selected but no movies selected.
  • Movie - Fixed Max Genre now displays All Available when restarting MC
  • Movie - Trailer url scraping error caught is no IMDBid in movie nfo.
  • TV - Fixed removal of missing folders also removes root folder.
  • TV - Fixed issue that's keeps Missing Episode data from being displayed after downloaded
  • TV - Fixed Missing Aired Episodes.

New in Media Companion 3.560 Beta (Apr 19, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - Option to save as either extrathumbs or extrafanart or both.
  • Added ignoring of ds_store files
  • TV - Ignore any filename starting with "dot underscore" (no space between)
  • TV - Icon present if show is missing episodes and Display Missing Episodes is selected.
  • TV - Icon present on season if season is missing episodes.
  • Fixed:
  • Home Movies - Added Manual Path option.
  • Movie - Fixed save preferences for poster.jpg option.
  • Movie - if 'Download Trailer' selected, auto-select 'Save Trailer URL'.
  • Movie - Retain 'CreateDate' when rescraping.
  • Movie - Catch error if save selected but no movies selected.
  • Movie - Fixed Max Genre now displays All Available when restarting MC
  • Movie - Trailer url scraping error caught is no IMDBid in movie nfo.
  • TV - Fixed removal of missing folders also removes root folder.
  • TV - Fixed issue that's keeps Missing Episode data from being displayed after downloaded
  • TV - Fixed Missing Aired Episodes.

New in Media Companion 3.559 Beta (Apr 19, 2013)

  • New:
  • Movie - Added option for 'poster.jpg' if movie in folder.
  • Tv - If new season episode scraped, check for new season artwork
  • Fixed:
  • Tv - If Frodo Only, Missing posters would appear for all Tv Shows. Fixed.
  • Tv - Missing posters Frodo, brings all shows as missing.
  • Tv - Runtime wasn't following the rules if preference for no "min" selected.
  • Tv - Removed absolute path reference to Thumbnail from multi-episode nfo.
  • Tv - Season-all - selected artwork only through TVDB.
  • Tv - Season-all edenart - Saves only poster or only banner to season-all.tbn as per preferences.
  • Home Movies - Fixed auto-screenshot during search for new videos.
  • Movie - Added movie title in progress bar during scrape.

New in Media Companion 3.558 Beta (Apr 6, 2013)

  • New:
  • All Preferences Tabs - Moved "Apply Changes" button to L/H Side. This means whether MC is run in Window or Full Screen, "Apply Changes" button is always in the same place, not pushed to far right if full-screen.
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Poster Browser (Alternative) not saving as moviename-poster.jpg - vbat99
  • Movie - Wall cache now updates if using Alternative Poster Browser - vbat99
  • Movie - Rating for countries that use a comma where we use a full-stop.
  • Movie - Rescrape, if TMDB unavailable, error caught.
  • Movie - Rescrape error if missing nfo file.
  • OfflineMovie - Use of fanart as offline video background - vbat99
  • HomeMovie - Fixed listbox size.
  • HomeMovie - Re-added Plot, Year and Stars fields.
  • HomeMovie - Correctly remove Homemovie root folder, rescanning homemovie list.
  • HomeMovie - Added Refresh Button.

New in Media Companion 3.557 Beta (Apr 6, 2013)

  • Fix issues with missing movies.

New in Media Companion 3.555 Beta (Apr 1, 2013)

  • Quick update to fix movie cache loading error on start up.

New in Media Companion 3.554 Beta (Apr 1, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Movie - Complete Frodo support for DVD structured folders
  • Movie - MkvMerge Gui integration - Right click in movie list to select. Set path in General Preferences
  • Movie - Movie play button
  • Movie - Filter - Number of audio tracks
  • Movie - Slider filters - Rating, Year & Votes. Left click to set\change range, Right click to move range & Double click to reset
  • General - Check for Update on Help drop list
  • General - Support DTS MA and DTS HRA tags in Audio stream details.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - If Set to Save TV Show thumbnails as banners, no image displayed if Pre-Frodo selected
  • TV - Broken Season artwork downloading while scraping new TV Show
  • Movie - Remove "See full summary ยป" from scraped outline
  • Movie - Re-display movie details after scrape to show changes
  • Movie - Loading movie cache was only loading 1 audio track

New in Media Companion 3.553 Beta (Mar 25, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Feature - Movie - New filters added. R-click filter window to disable/enable display of any filter.
  • Feature - Tv - Added Mark as Watched or UnWatched Show, Season or episode to Context menu.
  • Feature- Movie - Expand\collapse movie filters panel by double clicking on the splitter bar
  • Feature - Added - Check for new version at start up. Can be disabled in General Preferences
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Selected default language now correctly scrapes new shows.
  • Movie - Rescrape All clear's Watched and Source tags.
  • Movie - remove html link from Plot. See issue.
  • Movie - video file with full-stop in name only scrapes up to the full-stop.
  • Movie/Tv - Aspect tag correctly filled with value like 1.78.
  • Movie/Tv - DurationInSeconds correctly filled, keep in line with XBMC.

New in Media Companion 3.552 Beta (Mar 25, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Movie - Missing poster, Prev/Next buttons available. Movie List refreshed.
  • Movie - Fanart Prev/Next for missing fanart.
  • Movie - Fanart selection scrollable by mouse wheel.
  • Tv - If missing folders are found, allows these folders to be removed from Separate folder list.
  • Tv - Button added to TV Folders for search missing folders and remove.
  • Fixed:
  • TV - Episode runtime scraping from file.
  • TV - correctly refreshes the UI for Actors.
  • Movie - Runtime displayed correctly from either scraper or media stream details.
  • Movie - Stream duration does not overwrite scraped runtime.
  • Movie - Refresh Cache and UI if "Changed Movie".
  • Movie - Refreshes to correct movie. Doesn't auto change to next movie when Save is selected.

New in Media Companion 3.551 Beta (Mar 14, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • TV - Set ScreenShot time as custom value.
  • Movie - New Resolution filter added
  • Movie - able to save "fanart.jpg". Must have "Use Folder Names for Scraping" or "All Movies are in Folders" selected to activate.
  • Movie - Spin up movie drives so there's no browsing lag
  • Movie - Trailer to table view's 'Missing artwork' column
  • Fixed:
  • Movie - Sort: Sort Order is inverted.
  • Movie - Changing watched status on table view, now updating gridview.
  • Movie - Set filter has a blank entry.
  • Movie - saving movie that has no poster, was marked as having one. filter missing poster.
  • Movie - Missing Poster, UI was not updated to next movie in missing poster list.
  • Movie - Set filtering fuzzy.
  • Movie - Sort by Sort Order, not respecting articles.
  • Movie - Multi-part Movies, Editing any, causes changes to last mulit-part movie in alphabet.
  • Movie - Movie Basic Saving, correctly saving fanart file.
  • mc_com.exe. Saves screenshot if enabled.
  • TV -Correctly Scrape illegal characters in Episode title
  • TV Export - Advanced. Now picking up Frodo artwork.
  • Delay in cancelling changes to preferences

New in Media Companion 3.550 Beta (Mar 1, 2013)

  • Cache setting getting negated causing caching to be disabled (or vice versa)
  • Fallback to Eden poster name if Frodo poster doesn't exist, so existing pre-Frodo scrapes show Poster

New in Media Companion 3.549 Beta (Mar 1, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Movie - Set quantity of studio's saved in nfo.
  • Movies - Manual Renaming of Movies in a Folder, even if Usefoldername is selected.
  • Movie - Scrape Original Title from IMDB instead of general Title.
  • Movie - Set your Max number of Genre.
  • Movie - Set your Max number of Studio's.
  • Movie - Set number of sets to display, and what sort order.
  • Movie - Set number of Actors to scrape and what sort order.
  • Movie - Set date format
  • Movie - Genre updated to automatically populate from your movie list. Also easy to add any custom Genre's by adding to a movie, saving, and Refreshing all.

New in Media Companion 3.548 Beta (Mar 1, 2013)

  • New:
  • Latest ffmpeg now included for screenshots. Now supports mp4 and MKV.
  • MediaInfo.dll updated.
  • New - Frodo Actor Support for TV Shows & Movies.
  • Added - Movies R-click context for Rename Movies. Note: Does not allow Use Foldernames or save movies as movie.nfo. New option for Manual Rename in Movie Pref>General.
  • Fixed:
  • Select multiple movies, and remove from list working correctly
  • Minor scraping issue with director/credits/studio sorted.
  • Movie - Focus stays on currently worked on movie
  • Movie - Manual Fanart can be saved if 'Don't download fanart' selected
  • Movie - Sort by Runtime corrected.
  • Movie - Ignore Article working correctly.

New in Media Companion 3.547 Beta (Feb 19, 2013)

  • Fixes scraper issues caused by yesterdays IMDB changes
  • New: Frodo Poster display and change handling

New in Media Companion 3.546 Beta (Feb 19, 2013)

  • Urgent Fix - Movie Fanart tab not operational.
  • NEW Refresh All button on Movie browser page.
  • NEW Movie -poster.jpg saved if Frodo or Both selected.

New in Media Companion 3.545 Beta (Feb 19, 2013)

  • NEW Refresh All button on Movie browser page
  • NEW Movie -poster.jpg saved if Frodo or Both selected
  • Fixes:
  • GUI - preferences aligned with common placed 'Apply Setting' button.
  • Settings now saved immediately and MC reloads updated settings.
  • Tv Batch Rescraper Wizard. Finally nailed down and working correctly with all variations and Preference settings active.
  • TV - Catching errors due to actors not available on IMDB.
  • Movie Set - not able to be removed saved set if not allocated to any movies.
  • Movie Set - Select multiple movies to allocate to a set (On main Browser)
  • Movies - Remember sort order on exit.
  • Movies - shouldn't be updated when user "Saves" changes.

New in Media Companion 3.543 Beta (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Display Missing Episodes does not rewrite existing nfo's.
  • Rename episode lower case working again.
  • If on a Season and change to Poster Tab, Current season set in ComboBox.
  • Refixed TV Batch Wizard.
  • Movie - Director and Credit fields populated correctly.
  • Movie - Fixed oops during Text search & cursor after search finished.
  • Movie - Actor filter fixed.
  • Movie - Fixed System.InvalidCastException.
  • Movie - Fixed "Can't rescrape this movie due to different scraper"
  • Movie - Batch Rescraper ignore Namemode when rewriting nfo's
  • Movie - Maintain focus on the currently selected movie
  • Movie - Catch more exceptions, ie: Hopefully less "Oops" messages.
  • Gui tweaks.
  • New Features:
  • Don't overwrite existing artwork.
  • Added webm as trailer extension.
  • Option to disable tooltips when hovering over movie title.
  • Movie - Batch Rescraper Wizard can rename movies and artwork if Rename is selected in Movie Preferences.

New in Media Companion 3.541 Beta (Feb 6, 2013)

  • Batch Rescrape Wizard - Tv Shows and Episodes for all options, Pre, Frodo and Both
  • Find missing artwork - All options working
  • Manual Screenshot working for all options
  • Auto create Screenshot if non available for download. All options now working.
  • Screenshot from Batch Wizard - All options now working.
  • Movies - Stars field populated with multiple actors
  • 6 level folder search removed. Should allow for larger file locations.
  • Articles in name, ie: "The" can be ignored in sorting.
  • Namemode - Multipart movies now renamed correctly.
  • Batch Wizard - Crash fixed when multipart movies are present, no matter what namemode is selected.
  • XBMC TMDB updated.
  • Selecting alternative title for Movie Fixed.
  • Detecting correct movie name in Filename if like movie.name.title.mkv
  • Trailer extensions expanded. Now supports flv, mov, mp4, & m4v. Note: Trailer video files must be named the same as the movie filename, but with "-trailer.flv" Example extension . -trailer must be at the end of the filename.
  • Right Click episode Rescrape Episode fixed for not saving episode image.
  • mc_com.exe updated for Pre, Frodo and Both Tv Artwork.

New in Media Companion 3.540 Beta (Jan 31, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • IMDB scraper errors, caused by recent webpage changes *
  • Tmdb languages file not found after browsing for local fanart
  • DblClick TV images no longer zoomed
  • UI TV images overlapped text
  • Empty movie list if path(s) removed and then re-added
  • Movie duplicates where decided by name instead of id
  • Movie sort by votes
  • New features:
  • YouTube trailer scraping - scrapes flv, mp4 & webm trailers
  • Re-scrape TMDb set name added to Specific fields list and batch wizard
  • Added help for taking ownership of media files. This problem manifests itself as an 'access denied' error when MC tries to delete an existing media file that isn't owned by the user, even if user has administrator rights.
  • Press Ctrl-C to abort trailer download

New in Media Companion 3.530 Beta (Jan 29, 2013)

  • There has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes at Media Companion and Co! We finally have something we believe we can give to the public, and although not perfect, we hope it will address a lot of the problems users are having.
  • The big change is Frodo artwork support for TV Shows, thanks to fma965 - a user who took it upon himself to implement it and provide his changes to the MC team.
  • Another big change is facility to use TMDb as a scrape source for Frodo artwork, thanks to AnotherPhil for his huge effort over the last month!

New in Media Companion 3.521 Beta (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Fixed issue (651) - Crash on right clicking on tv episode.
  • Fixed Issue (659) - Exception when scraping a particular TV show.
  • Fixed issue (646) - Drag movie onto Movie List no longer works (scrape

New in Media Companion 3.500 (Apr 19, 2012)

  • Multiepisodes are not handled correctly in MC. The created nfo is valid, but they are not displayed in MC correctly & saving them from MC converts them back to a single episode. We are working on a resolution.
  • Failed web requests are not handled correctly in MC, and may cause an exception.

New in Media Companion 3.431 Beta (Feb 14, 2012)

  • General:
  • added "ssif" as a valid media extension in both MC & MC_COM
  • Updated XBMC scrapers.
  • TV:
  • Fixed Poster Zoom showing default art instead of actual art.
  • Fixed workitem #275 TV Show view options not working
  • Movies:
  • Added new form to display the main movie fields in BIG TEXT so it can be easily read. To access the form double click on any of the following fields in the main RHS panel: Plot, Certificate, Votes, Stars, Rating, Genre, Director or anywhere on the actual panel.
  • Fixed workitem #346 Download actor thumbs, local paths setting ignored
  • Crash & Multiselect issues fixed in the Movie table view
  • Fix for issue #352 - illegal character escaped before LoadXML().
  • Fixed multi-row select for issue #345
  • Movie tab GUI tweaks
  • Add 'Character name' tooltip
  • mc_com:
  • Fixed workitem #325 mc_com error when updating tv shows

New in Media Companion 3.430 Beta (Jan 28, 2012)

  • TV:
  • Resolved issue where newly added Tv Show was not saved on exit
  • resolved issue where TvdbId could be null and check was missing
  • Movies:
  • fix for crash that occurs when batch processing movies and one has a missing nfo file.
  • mc_com:
  • resolved MC_COM crash when episodedetails not fully present

New in Media Companion 3.424 Beta (Nov 26, 2011)

  • Resolved issue when reverting multiselection of movies to "-none-"
  • Added movie rename support for subtitle files '.srt' & '.sub'
  • Finalised code for '-1' fix - radiobutton to choose either filename or title
  • Fixed issue with Movie Batch Wizard Fanart - It wouldn't continue searching.
  • Increased line list memory to 4000, some returned web pages >2500
  • Fixed issue if create date was ""
  • Added check for return of "error" in fanart scraper
  • Added check for 404 error - occurs if movie if not found during poster scrape
  • Added 'part' search for movie rename - handles cd,dvd,part,disk,pt & # 1-9 with ""," ",".","_" as possible midnames
  • Movie rename streamlined code, added "smi" & "idx" to files renamed

New in Media Companion 3.417 Beta (Sep 24, 2011)

  • General:
  • Better error handling!
  • Movies:
  • Runtime is now user-defined, and can be switched by clicking on label.
  • Some UI changes.
  • Fixed some scraper issues that cause garbage characters.
  • Fixed Votes scraping.
  • TV Shows:
  • Scraping accuracy improved.
  • Fixed NfoPath.

New in Media Companion 3.414 Beta (Aug 24, 2011)

  • Hopefully fixed the issues people have been having with updating the TV IDs
  • Removed the annoying "Nfo files have been altered but not saved, would you like to save all changes?" message box.

New in Media Companion 3.413 Beta (Aug 18, 2011)

  • TV Fixes:
  • Added an option in TV preferences to update the id tag in the cache and nfo to the TVDb id.
  • Resolved issue where TV HTML would crash
  • Resolved issues with the TV actor display when selecting different shows.
  • Better TvdbId tag handling has been implemented
  • Added fix for issue #87 "TV Folders not working" where adding a new TV folder wouldn't get scraped.
  • Resolved an exception where the XBMC movie scraper was trying to access hidden system folders.
  • Fixed a movie cache bug where saved data wasn't written to Movie cache relating to PLOT
  • Movie Fixes:
  • Added call to test validity of Movie Folder during XBMC scraper folder search.

New in Media Companion 3.412 Beta (Aug 6, 2011)

  • Movies
  • MC scraper updated.
  • Latest XBMC IMDb scraper has been included (although there are still some blank fields).
  • Offline movies fixed.
  • TVShows
  • Shows and episodes now displayed properly.
  • TV context menu fixed.

New in Media Companion 3.403 Beta (May 27, 2011)

  • Added Features:
  • Movies HTML output engine has been updated to include most Movie.nfo fields. It also has the ability now to have 2 or more movies side-by-side. The developer (HueyHQ) has also included some example templates - check out the 'Movie card Filter' template for an example of the flexibility now provided by the new additions.
  • TV Show information can be exported to HTML much the same as Movies Can. Check the 'INFO_HTMLoutputTags.txt' file for details of both the movie & TVShow tags. Thanks again to HueyHQ.
  • Thanks goes to Playos for adding several major changes to improve the coding of MC
  • Movie 'Stars' are now scraped
  • You can now set your own text for the text that is overlayed on the generated offline movies. Use the token '%T' to use the movie title.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed Issue #36 - Auto Create Episode Thumbnail Setting now obeys the setting in preferences
  • Issue#37 Fixed Change IMDB Certification Priorities (Down Arrow)
  • Stopped Fanart Selection returning to the Main Tab Automatically (note more work needs to be done with the logic relating to the missing filters & the filter tab)
  • Reordered Movies & TV Menus to be more consistant with each other
  • Gave a little more room to the Studio field